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JOURNALS 

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REV. THOMAS SMITH, 



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REV. SAMUEL DEANE, 



PASTORS OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN PORTLAND: 



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NOTES AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES: 



AND A SUMMARY 



HISTORY OE PORTLAND. 



BY W M . WILLIS 



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JOSEPH S . BAILEY 
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CONTENTS. 



Preface to the Second edition , 5 

Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Smith, 7 

Preface to the First edition, 87 

Journal of the Rev. Thomas Smith, with notes, 89 

Names of persona deceased, mentioned in the Journal, 2G3 

Seasons and weather 1722 — 1787, 265 

Extracts from records of the First Parish, 285 

Memoir of Rev. Samuel Deane, 289 

Extracts from Deane's Diary, with notes, 801 

Buildings erected from 1784 to 1809, 416 



APPENDIX. 

Preface, 420 

Memoir of Samuel Freeman, 421 

Summary History of Portland, 426 

Education and Literary Societies, , .'.... 441 

Religious Societie«i, 443 

Benevolent Societies, 44.5 

Commerce and Public improvements, 457 

Town Officers and Representatives, 1718—1849, 466 

County Oflicers and Court business, 1760—1849, 472 

Municipal Court, 474 

Index, 475 



ENGRAVINGS. 

1. Rev. Thomas Smith, fronting title page. 

2. Plan of Munjoy's Neck, 72 

3. Meeting house of the First Parish, 93 

4. Rev. Dr. Deane, fronting page, 288 

5. Harvard Hall, Cambridge, 303 

6. Portland at the time of the conflagration, 1775, 338 

7. Rev. Dr. Nichols, fronting page, 398 

8. Exchange, 440 



R E F A C E 



TO 'J'HK EDITION OF 18 49 



The llrst edition of Mr. Smith's Journal having been exhausted, I have comphed 
with the request of the publisher of this work, and several judicious friends, to 
prepare a new edition, but in which I have no pecuniary interest. This gives me 
an opportunity to correct some errors, which crept into the former work, and to 
make further extracts from scattered leaves of the original manuscript, which I 
have been able to obtain. In the hope of making the present edition more valuable, 
I have added numerous notes, explanatory of events mentioned in the Journal, 
and biographical notices, which I behevo will contain some account of all the 
prominent individuals, who have been passed over our field of survey, during a 
period of two hundred years. 

And having in my possession the original Diary of Dr. Deane, the colleague and 
successor of Mr. Smith, kept on interleaved almanacs, from 1761, to within a 
month of his death, in 1814, there appeared to me a peculiar propriety, in taking 
from it such facts as have a general interest, so that a regular series of events, 
running through the lives of our first two ministers, and covering nearly a century, 
might be preserved. To these, I have appended memoirs and portraits of their 
writers. 

And as the annals of the Parish must necessarily constitute the staple of the 
daily record of its pastors, I have thought it would be proper, and give increased 
interest to the work, to add the portrait of Dr. Nichols, the successor of our 
venerable annalists in the ministry, to preserve entire, their living lineaments, as 
well as the history of the Parish, with which they were connected, and whose 



VI. PREFACE. 

lives embrace, in an uninterrupted course of one hundred and twenty-dlu'ee years, 
the whole period of it8 being. 

In the Appendix, I have for reasons heretofore given, substituted for much of the 
materials placed by Mr. Freeman, in that part of the first edition, a summary view 
of the origin of Portland, and its progress to the period, when our annalists take up 
the story; and close with a brief account of the present condition of the city, in its 
various relations to the business, and refinements of life. 

It is hoped that the additions, which have been made to the original work, will 

furnish a sufficient apology for its reappearance, in this revised form. 

W. W. 



MEMOIR 



OF THE 



REV. THOMAS SMITH. 



The venerable minister, who was author of the journal embraced 
in the first part of this volume, was the son of Thomas Smitli and 
Mary Corwin, who were married May 9, 1701, by the Rev. Samuel 
Willard, pastor of the Old South Church, in Boston. His grandfather 
Smith's name was also Thomas, and a merchant in that town. He 
was born March 10, 1702, the eldest of a large family of children, 
born as follows, viz : John, February 2, 1703 ; Samuel, November 29, 
1705; Mary, May 30, 1708; Rebecca, January 24, 1710, died 
August 6, 1740; Margaret, December 11, 1711, died January 
12, 1742; Hanmh, October 26, 1713, died September 14, 1714; 
Elizabeth, March 2, 1715, died April 24, 1724. His mother died in 
childbirth, July, 1716 ; and October 9, 1717, his father married 

Sarah , by whom he had Sarah, born September 16, 1718, 

died October 28, 1721 ; Ann and Bethiah, born November 3, 1719, 
both of whom died within a year and a half ; Ann, born April 22, 
1721, died October 1, 1735, and Sarah, born May 15, 1724, died 
May 27, 1724. Our pastor survived them all. His father died at 
Saoo, February 19, 1742 : he was engaged there as Indian Agent, or 
Truck Master, and had been for many years in the service of the 
government in connection with Indian affairs, in this State. His 
brother John, died April 6, 1769, a merchant in Boston. 



8 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 

Mr. Smith entered Harvard College in 1716, at the age of 14, and 
took his first degree in 1720. His class consisted of twenty-one ; of 
whom sixteen were trained for the ministry, and all of whom Mr. 
Smith survived. The position he occupies on the Catalogue, fourth 
in number, shows the estimate put upon the respectability of his 
family by the government of the institution, at a time when the names 
Avere arranged in the order of dignity. Those standing before him 
were, Roswell Saltonstall, John Angier, the worthy minister of East 
Bridgewater for sixty years, and Howard Wyborne. I have now 
before me the Manuscript copy, in latin, of " the statute's, laws and 
privileges of Harvard College," which Mr. Smith received on his 
entrance, styled ** Statuta Collegii Harvardini." On this is the 
following certificate over the original signature of the President, and 
tutor Flint, venerahile novien ; viz : " Cantabrigiae, Nov. Anglorum, 
7, Id. Sextilis Anno Dom. 1716. Admittatur in Collegium Harvardi- 
niun, Thomas Smith. I. Leverett, Preses. Henricus Flynty 

After leaving College, he seems to have entered at once upon his 
theological studies ; for as early as January, 1723, a little more than 
two years from his graduation, and before he was twenty-one years 
old, we find him preaching at Bellingham, in Massachusetts, and 
receiving a call to settle in that place. This, however, after some 
deliberation, he declined in March of that year. He began to preach 
still earlier than this : he says in his journal under 1750, " I began to 
preach April 19, 1722." 

In June, 1725, he came for the first time to Falmouth, then the 
extreme settlement in Maine, and too poor to have a meeting house 
to preach in. At that time, and in November and December following, 
when he again visited this town, he preached seventeen Sabbaths, 
and continued to preach here during a large part of the following year. 
So acceptable were his ministrations, that on the 26th of April, 1726, 
the people invited him to a settlement with them. To this invitation, 
after nine months reflection, he gave an affirmative answer, January 
23, 1727, a copy of which, together with the terms of the settlement, 
will be found in a note to that year in the journal. At this time he 
communicated his thoughts and views to his old Pastor, Peter 
Thacher, minister of the New North Church, in Boston, and desired 
advice and a regular dismission from his Church. Mr. Thacher 
ireturned the followins: answer : 



memoir of the rev. thomas smith, 9 

« Boston, January 30, 1726—7. 
Dear Sir. This accompanies your dismission according to your 
desire. I gladly take this opportunity to write to you. It is with a 
great deal of joy I see you concerned to behave as a Christian and 
minister. That is the principal, nay, only thing. You are entering 
upon the most important article of life. It is a most awful thing to 
enter into the ministry. It must now be a time of much serious 
thought and fervent prayer ; the greatness of the work, the awful 
majesty with whom, and the precious souls for whom, you are 
concerned, call for it. I will offer you a thought or two to be acted 
on continually. Most deliberately and heartily now, devote yourself 
to God, as a Christian and minister. Think over the grea,t things you 
are binding yourself to, deliberately, and particularly resolve and 
promise to perform them through Christ. Depend continually on 
free grace through Christ, realizing your own nothingness. See to it 
that your preaching be experimental, that you have a real work of 
grace wrought on you, and that you feel your own sermons. Beg the 
Spirit to lead you in the choice of your subjects, and in your 
meditations on them. Let Christ and the doctrines of grace be the 
principal matter, and spirit of your ministry. Make your ministerial 
work and not the world, your business, and copy your sermons in 
your conversation, and let your prudent, grave, cheerful, humble, 
circumspect conversation, back and enforce your teaching. In this 
way you will have the Redeemer's promised presence through your 
ministry and from him a crown of glory. As you have desired my 
thoughts, let them have due weight with you. I earnestly pray that 
you may be blessed and made a blessing. I desire and expect a 
correspondence with you as you have opportunity from time to time. 
Your friends are well. Your aunt remembers her love to you. 
I am, your real friend, &c. 

Peter Thacher." 

On the 8th day of March, 1727, a day memorable in the annals of 
the town, Mr. Smith was duly and solemnly inducted into the pastoral 
office at the age of twenty-five, in a style and with a ceremony and a 
concourse of people never before witnessed in this part of the country ; 
and became the first regularly ordained minister in Maine, east of 
Wells. 



10 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS S3IITH. 

Bom and educated in a metropolis, it must have been a great 
sacrifice for Mr. Smith to take up his permanent abode in this remote 
wilderness, in the midst of a scattered and rude population, and for a 
period of time, which contemplated no change until death dissolved 
the connection. He says when he first came here, in June, 1725, 
there were but about fifty-six families, such as they were, most of them 
poor, and " some that were soldiers, who had found wives on the 
place, and were mean animals." These families were widely scattered, 
on the Neck, at New Casco and Cape Elizabeth. On the Neck, now 
Portland, there were in 1716, but 15 men, with the women and 
children connected with them, which would not probably carry the 
whole number to one hundred, and who were clustered for security 
around the lower part of what is now India street. In 1718, there 
were twenty families on the Neck, and the town having been 
incorporated that year, adventurers were encouraged to come to it, 
and the descendants of the old proprietors, with the natural tendency 
of the exile, were induced once more to return to their ancient 
seats. The beauty of its local situation and its numerous advantages 
for fishing, lumbering and navigation, offered temptations, which but 
few unoccupied places presented at that time, to the enterprising 
adventurer. At the settlement of Mr. Smith, the population of the 
whole town did not exceed four hundred, of which about two hundred 
and fifty resided upon the Neck. It is not therefore a matter of 
surprise, that he should have been a long time, from April to January, 
in coming to the conclusion, to yield up the pleasures which he might 
hope to enjoy in the society of more cultivated parts of the country, 
to the prospect of extensive usefulness in this outpost of civilization. 

But it must not be supposed that the place was wholly without the 
benefits of good society, and some of the refinements of life ; it was 
perhaps more favored in these respects, than is usual in new 
settlements. Here he found Major Samuel Moody, with whom he 
boarded, and his two sons Joshua and Samuel, who had all received 
the honors of Harvard College, and the elder of whom had been a 
preacher as well as a soldier. There were also Benjamin Larrabee, 
who had held a commission in the army; Samuel Cobb, from 
Middleboro'; John Pritchard, from Boston; Skillings and Proctor, 
from Salem ; William Scales, from Plymouth Colony ; Dominicus 
Jordan and others ; men of sound sense, virtuous characters and cood 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH, 11 

common education, who were well suited to cooperate with their 
amiable and excellent pastor, in laying securely the foundation of a 
vigorous and flourishing community. 

Mr. Smith's acceptance of the invitation of the people to become 
their pastor caused unfeigned and universal satisfaction, which 
manifested itself in extraordinary efforts to make a comfortable 
provision for him and his expected family. The town at a public 
meeting, voted " to accept Mr. Smith's answer to settle with them, 
with all thankfulness, being universally satisfied there with all;" to 
supply him with fire wood, to pay his salary every six months, to 
clear and fence his lots, and to find him a house. His salary " was 
£70 money the first year besides his board, and the contribution of 
strangers, and to be increased according to our ability, and as our 
circumstances allow, until he shall be provided with an honorable 
maintenance." 

Such unanimity and such cheerful effort, could not but be gratifying 
to the youthful pastor, who had cast his lot among them for life, for 
better or worse. For the contract between a minister and his people 
was then considered a matter of serious import and of pennanent 
character, not as in the present day for a year or two, or to be broken 
at the will or whim of either party. 

Having now completed this important engagement, he set about 
another no less important to him, and no less for life. The 
companion whom he selected to share the burden of his cares, and to 
be the partaker of his joys, was Sarah Tyng, daughter of William 
Tyng, Esq., of Woburn, Massachusetts, to whom he was married 
September 12, 1728.' This event, too, was hailed by his people 
with great joy, as giving a new bond of union and interest between 
themselves and their pastor. On his approach to town with his 
bride, he was met at Scarborough by a number of his parishioners, 
who escorted the happy pair home, and regaled them with " a very 
noble supper," prepared for the occasion. 

He now entered earnestly on the business of his life ; his duties 
were arduous, being extended over a wide territory, and being obliged 
every third Sabbath to preach at Purpoodock for the benefit of the 

1. The descendants here have an impression that she was daughter of Col. John 
Tyng, of Dunstable ; but I find recorded on her tomb stone, that her father was 
" Win. Tyng, Esq., of Woburn." 



12 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 

people there. He had many trials, privations and sufferings to 
endure, among which were apprehensions of famine, and of Indian 
depredations and cruelties, which were by no means imaginary. All 
these he bore Avith patience, and went on with untiring zeal in the 
great work which he had undertaken ; to elevate the people of his 
charge, in their temporal as well as spiritual condition ; to give 
a higher tone to manners, and to spread around the influence of 
a good example and of holy precepts. Nor were his labors confined 
to pastoral duties; he was, I might almost say, equally devoted 
to those of the medical profession. Like most country ministers at 
that day, he had become instmcted in the ills which flesh is heir to, 
and their needful remedies, so that he could at once apply balm to the 
bruised body and consolation to the fainting spirit. In 1748, he says : 
" I am hurried perpetually with the sick ; the whole practice rests on 
me." Again, in July, 1751 : "It is a time of health and therefore a 
time of leisure with me." References to his medical practice are 
numerous in his journal, and show that his ministrations were as 
eagerly sought for bodily relief, as for the solace and instructions of 
religion. 

But he did not for this, diminish his labors in his more appropriate 
duties. These were arduous and unremitted, and conscientiously 
performed according to the sentiment and usage of that period. His 
large parish required and received the visits, the prayers and lectures 
of the pastor; he travelled to its various points, in boats, on 
horse back, on the ice or on snow shoes. His pulpit exercises must 
have worn heavily upon his own frame, and often, if the following 
notice is a fair sample of his faithfulness, almost broken down those of 
his hearers, " Annual Fast. Had uncommon assistance, was an 
hour in each of the first prayers." We cannot but sympathise with 
the audience as needing uncommon assistance, not to say patience, 
too. It is strange that persons who adhered so rigidly to the letter of 
the New Testament as our predecessors did, should not have 
remembered the severe censure which the Saviour pronounced upon 
the long prayers of the Pharisees, and the commendation bestowed 
upon the short and comprehensive ejaculation of the humble Publican. 
The custom is considerably refomied ; but there is still room for 
improvement in this particular. People want suggestion and 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 13 

incitement and a fervent liumble supplication, not narrative nor a 
didactive discourse, nor " vain repetitions." Our heavenly Father 
knoweth what things we have need of before we ask him. 

The people, however, in Mr. Smith's time, so far from being 
dissatisfied with his services, within twelve days after the incident 
above cited, raised his salary £50 old tenor. His faithfulness and 
devotion to duty, will be apparent to every one who reads his journal, 
where he records in the simplicity of his heart, and without any 
pretension, his labors, his feelings, his struggles and aspirations. 
That he was a blessing — an instrument of God, for good to this 
people, cannot be doubted, and the more so, by the length, uniformity 
and permanency of his ministiy. 

The number of persons admitted to the Church during his ministry 
was four hundred and fifty-nine, of which one hundred and fifty-six 
were males and three hundred females : the largest number in any 
one year was forty-nine, in 1742, during the Whitefield excitement. 
But it should be remembered, that his parish which began with a 
small population sent forth streams continually to other portions of 
the territory in the incorporation of new parishes : thus, Cape 
Elizabeth, New Casco, the Episcopal Society, the Stroudwater 
Parish, and the Second Parish in this town were successively set off, 
during the life of Mr. Smith. The number of baptisms was two 
thousand three hundred and sixty-two ; infants, two thousand three 
hundred and thirty-one, adults thirty-one. Of the births and deaths 
which took place in the Parish, in his time, we have no means of 
determining, as no records were kept of them. 

In his religious opinions, Mr. Smith followed the theology of his 
day, which in the early portion of his ministry, was rigidly Calvinistic. 
These views are in part set forth in the first Church covenant, which 
was probably drawn up by him, and may be seen in a note in the 
following pages under the organization of the Church. In the latter 
portion of his life, however, he relaxed from the severity of his earlier 
creed and became what was called a moderate Calvinist. * 

I have found among his papers some meditations in his ovm hand 
writing, which exhibit a glimpse of his private thoughts, and illustrate 
the style and language of the day, from which I make a brief extract. 



1. Dr. Deane's notice of Mr. Smith. 



14 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 

" The just died for the unjust, to bring us to God. It cost the Son 
of God much to buy us off from the justice of God ; yet this purchase 
is freely offered to us ; how shall wee escape if wee neglect it. 

" Wee beg that thou wouldst know us in a way of mercy in Christ, 
and cast us not off for all wee have done. But dispense thyself 
graciously to us in the New Covenant. Lay the burden of our sins 
on the bleeding shoulders of Christ ; let us dye to sin, lest wee dye 
for sin. Grant that to us to live may be Christ, that so when Christ 
who is our life shall appear, wee may appear with him in glory. 

" Let us love thee much and let our much be forgiven, and prevail 
with us to love ourselves, persuade us to all thy holy wholesome 
counsels, and manage our spirits for thyselfe. 

" The Lord make us wise and established Christians ; let every truth 
of God have its due value by us, and virtue on us ; let us look on 
Scripture truths as wearing the stamp of Heaven. Give Jesus a 
name above every name in our hearts. Wee desire to live as those 
who look upon themselves not their own, but as such who have 
stricken hands with thee and given up our names unto God," 

Mr. Smith had a liberal and catholic spirit ; his heart was larger 
than his creed, and he did not carry into the duties of life, the 
speculations and dogmas of his theology. In speaking of his religious 
sentiments, Mr. Freeman in his notice of him observes : " that he 
embraced the opinions of Calvin rather than those of Arminius. I 
think it not improper however to notice an oral communication, 
which he made to me some years before his death, and which 
I then committed to wTiting. It is as follows, and was considered 
by him as 

"A Brief Summary of the Christian Religion. 

1. That God made man after his own image, holy, just and good, 
and therefore perfectly happy. 

2. That man fell from this state of perfect rectitude, and thereby 
brought upon or subjected himself to eternal misery. 

3. That God so loved the world that he gave his son Jesus 
Christ to redeem mankind from this state of punishment for sin, 
who made an atonement therefor, by his sufferings and death, and 
thereby purchased the grant of repentance, 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH, 15 

4. To enable man to repent, he promised to send his Holy Spirit 
to them who asked it. 

5, Therefore to recover a state of happiness, we are by the 
assistance of the Spirit, to repent and be obedient; and by so doing 
we shall obtain eternal life." 

This was tempering dowTi the dogmas of the head with the 
sensibilities of the heart, which Mr. Smith possessed in large 
measure. At times he was greatly depressed in spirits, and had sad 
forebodings of the future ; but generally he was cheerful, sanguine 
and gay, and often witty and even sarcastic. There was no bigotry 
about him, and Calvin's platform on which education and the 
prevailing sentiment of the age in which he was educated, placed 
him, was too small for him to stand upon. Dr. Deane, from whose 
discourse I shall hereafter more fully quote, says : " He was a constant 
assertor of the doctrine of grace, according to the rational scheme of 
moderate Calvinism. He knew how to unite orthodoxy with candor 
and charity, like the late excellent Dr. Isaac Watts, whose theological 
writings he much approved." 

In his pulpit exercises he had a wide reputation ; he was fervent, 
earnest and solemn in his prayers, and his sermons were written and 
delivered in an impressive and forcible manner. He was a good 
scholar, a devout and sincere Christian, and well deserved the 
■reputation which he bore for many years as the leading minister in 
this part of the country. Mr. Kellogg of the second parish, remarked 
in the discourse which he delivered at his interment ; " In knowledge 
of the Scriptures and of eminent authors on divinity, he excelled. 
His imagination was lively and his memory tenacious. It is conceded 
by all who heard him, that he was an instructive and agreeable 
preacher. There were in his prayers a richness of expression, a 
devotion and pathos, seldom exceeded. In his manners there 
Avas dignity and ease. In conversation, he was grave, instructive, 
affectionate ; and happy in anecdote." 

His wit and humor were fresh and free, and at times hardly 
restrained within clerical rules. They flowed out from him sponta- 
neously, rendering him an agreeable companion in social life and quite 
a prize on all those occasions which brought the clergy together ; of 
whom as well as of the legal profession it may be said, that in the 
olden day there was infinitely more of wit and frolic and gaiety, on 



16 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 

all occasions wliich brought them together, than there is in this 
prosaic and utilitarian age. ' 

And with these opposite traits of character, this severe and earnest 
piety, and this exuberant wit, he had closely allied, a practical 
business talent, which kept him ever watchful of his temporal con- 
cerns, in the midst of his pressing calls for the spiritual interest of 
his people. He seems early to have imbibed a taste for speculation in 
real estate ; his kinsman, John Smith, a merchant in Boston, was 
Clerk of the Proprietors in North Yarmouth before that town was 
incorporated, and largely interested there, and in lands in Falmouth. 
He purchased into the Munjoy title and other claims of the old 
proprietors, which required his presence here. These associations 
probably drew our minister into similar purchases and speculations, 
which were not unsuccessful. I have been so fortunate as to find 
among his papers an inventory of his estate in his own hand WTiting, 
taken in 1742, which shows a favorable result, and which Lwill not 
withhold from the curious reader. 

" An account of what Estate belongs to T. Smith, Oct. 3, 1742. 

Imprimis. His mansion house, barn, &c., upon a three acre lot of 

land given him by the town of Falmouth ; joining hereto under the 

same inclosure, is a three acre lot bought of the widow of Mr. 

Walton ; another three acre lot bought of Mr. Dunnevan ; another, 

1. I find among Mr. S. Freeman's papers the following memorandum which is 

interesting in this connection : 

" 1764, August 5. Mr. Smith preached from these words — Render to all. 
THEIR DUES, and confined himself wholly to Trustors and Trustees, debtors and 
creditors, wherein he shew the evil and wickedness of debtors living high in the 
world while at the same time thej' are keeping their creditors out of their just due, 
and nothing less than robbery or using the creditor's goods and defrauding him of 
his due, when, if he lived in a manner naked and trusting to Providence for his 
subsistence he might get or save wherewithal to pay his creditors; which sermon, 
(which it was thought ill judged and imprudent to preach, especially at a juncture 
when a colleague for him was about to be settled, «&c.) was disliked by most or all 
of his hearers, especially by Brigadier Preble, whose son's case it represented, and 
who left the meeting house in the midst of the sermon. Some are vexed at his 
preaching it, and some sorry for his imprudence, and I believe himself one of the 
last. 

N. B. lie <iuoted a text in Jeremiah, which some merrily called Jeremiah 
Preble." 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 17 

bought of Mr. Bov/man. These lie to the westward of the house. 
Then to the eastward, a three acre lot bought of Mr. Cob, and about 
an acre and a half bought of JMr. Wheeler, 

Item. Joining to these but not under the same enclosure is a three 
acre lot bought of Mr. East, which extends from said Smith's fence 
to the burial place, and is bounded by the fence or line that shuts in 
Munjoy's Neck. ^ 

Item. A three acre lot joining to the ministry lot which was given 
to said Smith by the town as his three acre lot, and which lies 
between Mr. Wheeler's on the east and Mr. Bramhall's on the west. 

Item. About sixty acres and a part of an acre on Munjoy's Neck, 
as may be seen by the particular deeds on record. 

Item. A third part of Peak's island and a third part of House 
island. 

Item. A sixth part of Ammoncongan farm, bought of John 
Munjoy, together with a third part of the salt marsh belonging to it, 
which lies along at Capisick, before Deacon Cobb's land and others. 

Item. A sixth part of a large tract of land, being formerly the half 
of the same estate, but sold by Munjoy to Mr. IngersoU, whose son- 
in-law, Mr. Chapman, I bought it of. 

Item. My third part of the land the General Court gave the heirs 
of Major Tyng, in a new town called Gorhamtown, and lying on 
Presumpscot river, as may be seen by plan on Secretary's books. 

Memorandmn. Mr. John Tyng gave my son Peter, half of his 
share in it, which he has often promised, and if desired will give a 
deed of. 

Item. A sixth part of Col. Gedney's estate, on Royal's river in 
North Yarmouth, as may be seen by several conveyances on county 
records. 

Memora7idu7n. I gave bond to Capt. Wear and Mr. Fellows to 
pay their part of the charge that should arise in trying the title of the 
whole, and I have done it. I expect they have given me receipt 
therefor on the bond. 

1. This twenty acres lay in a body on the westerly side of Congress, fronting the 
head of India street, and extended to Back Cove : he bought of Samuel Cobb ui 
1728. His house stood on Congress street, looking through King, now India street. 
This twenty acres was a forest in 1728, but is now covered with buildings, and is 
very valuable. 



18 MEMOIR OF THE KEV. THOMAS SMITH. 

Item. The estate my Grandmother Clark left me by will, as may 
be seen by looking to her will. ' 

Item. My share in the remaining part of my father's estate. " 

Item. My library,^ watch, firelock, wearing apparel and my 
wife's, and furniture of the house. 

Item. Several bonds, viz : Mr. Bayley's, Capt. Larrabee's, Mr. 
Clough's, &c. 

Item. Several debts, more especially some hundreds of povmds the 
parish and town owes, which was, as I could reckon September 1, 
1742, about £800, besides other years not cleared, and I know nothing 
about ; but I would not have the parish ever sued for the same, nor 
for the old arrears five years back, only would have the account 
settled, that they may know that I give something very considerable 
to them, and that I never had it in view to get their money, but to do 
them good and save their souls. * 

Item. My stock of creatures ; my chaise, saddles and bridles. 

Item. My share in several tracts of land belonging to Munjoy's 
estate, which are something in the dark, and therefore never purposely 
sought after by me. See the papers belonging to Munjoy's estate, a 
third part of which is mine. 

Item. My share of my aunt Corwin's estate, and my aunt 
Thatcher's, in Mr. Walley's hands." 

I give the whole of this paper not only for the interesting facts it 
presents, but for its graphic character, and for the business talent it 
exhibits. And it cannot but create some surprise that an amount of 
property so large, should have been accumulated in the space of fifteen 
years, from a salary so very inconsiderable, and so poorly paid as the 
paper shows it to have been. But the town was liberal to him in the 
supply of various wants ; and the purchase of his lands was at a low 
price : for instance, the consideration in Samuel Cobb's deed of his 
three acres, 1728, was but five shillings. 

The purchase of the Munjoy and other old titles gave him a 

1. His son Peter notes here, " This is no consideration." 

2. Peternotes, " in vain." 

3. Part of this, Peter gave to Bowdoin College. 

4. I think this paper was drawn uj) in a lit of depression, occasioned by Ins 
wife's death which took place at this time, and in anticipation of his own; otherwise 
flic direction here given would not seem to be pertinent. 



MEMOIR OF THE KEV, THOMAS SMITH. 19 

deal of trouble, and involved liim in law suits to acquire or protect 
his possession. But the management of this b\isiness showed 
considerable tact and discrimination. I find among his papers 
numerous minutes of facts to be proved, and papers to be procured, 
which show great acuteness, not only in discerning the true bearing 
of his case, but in providing succours for the contest. Take, for 
instance, the following memorandum from a paper in his own hand 
writing : 

" To- look carefully to the jury, &c. To represent the conduct of 
the jury at the lower Court. Capt. Wait recovered against the 
Bracketts, two-ninths, i. e. one-ninth he purchased of PuUen and 
wife, which some years before, I had purchased of them, and the deed 
recorded ; whether that may not be considered as my possession. 

N. B, " It will be needful distinctly to observe, that we have oflfered 
to give up to them their possessions and not to take any advantage 
of their improvements. Deacon Haskell's wife is cousin german to 
Brackett." 

This case was for a part of Peak's island, claimed by the 
Bracketts, and was tried in the Inferior Court in 1762, and in the 
Superior Court in 1763, in which the Bracketts were defeated. 
Mr. Smith claimed title under Munjoy and thus deduces his title : 
" Deacon Phillips, of Boston. George Munjoy, of Falmouth, 
married his daughter and only child, by whom he had two sons, 
Pelatiah and George, and two daughters, Hepzibah and Mary.' 
Hepzibah married to Mortimer, Mary to Palmer, to the latter of 
which Munjoy conveyed the island, and was afterwards carried away 
or killed by the Indians and never heard of, and had no child. 
George had a son Josiah, and two daughters, Thompson and Gneiss, 
the latter though married died without children. So that Josiah and 
Thompson remained heirs to their father George's third of the island, 
i. e. a sixth to each of them. Josiah had a son John and two 
daughters, viz : Martha married to John Pullen and Mary married to 
James Hornby, who convey to Smith. 

" N. B. It is necessary to insist upon an heirship to Pelatiah, by 
means of which, we inherit likewise a sixth, i. e. as old George's 
children were George, Jr., Pelatiah and Hepzibah ; and Pelatiah 

1. He had also a son John, who was killed by the Indians in 1776, leaving a 
widow and one daughter, Huldah. 



20 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 

dying without being married, his third falls among the heirs of his 
brother and sisters." ' 

Mr. Smith was three times married : his first wife by whom he 
had all his children, died October 1, 1742. He was tenderly attached 
to her, and on the day of her death he records : " My dear wife died 
between two and three o'clock, P. M.," and then he enters into a train 
of meditation on the painful event. Two years afterwards, on the 
anniversary of her death, he again recurs to it, and although he had 
sought to assuage his sorrows with another companion, he pours out 
his grief in the following strain : " This day I separated myself in 
some poor manner for the exercise of humiliation, with respect to the 
sore providence that happened on it a year [two years] ago." 

She was a woman of admirable qualities : in a letter to a friend, 
written on the day of her death, Mr. Smith speaks of her and of his 
loss, in a manner to justify the highest encomiums upon her character. 
He says : " Never did I see in any person a more remarkable tender 
conscience, afraid of the least appearance of evil." " She was strictly 
pious, without affectation or show." " She was an Israelite indeed, 
in whom there was no guile." " I never remember to have seen any 
one thing in her whole life, that I could call a deliberate sin." " She 
was a person of a truly generous spirit and hated a mean thing." 
" The people of this place all esteemed and delighted in her beyond 
any thing of like kind that has been known ; and if their united 
wishes and prayers could have kept her alive, she had not died. You 
cannot conceive the grief and mourning her death has universally 
caused. Men, women and children appear strangely struck, as those 
that mourn for an only child." " When she took her last leave of her 
children about an hour before she died, she said to them, 'My dear 
children, I have given you to God : I did it as soon as I felt you in 
the womb, and I have never ceased doing it, and now I can cheerfully 
leave you with him.' " The following is Mr. Smith's account of the 
closing scene : " About two minutes before her death, she said, ' I am 
just gone,' and closed her eyes to die ; the lids instantly opened 

1. Samuel Livermore, of Portsmouth, afterwards Chief Justice in New Hamp- 
shire, argued the cause for Mr. Smith, and received for his fee .£6 13 4, lawful 
money, the receipt for which is in my possession. Daniel Farnham, of Newbury, 
was also in the defence. John Chipman, of Marblehead, David Sewall, of York, 
and David Wver. of Falmouth, were for the Plaintiffs, 



MEMOTR OF THE REV, THOMAS SMITH. 21 

P£jain, but the eyes were set : still she continued praying audibly for 
half a minute, and then for nearly half a minute more so as not to be 
understood ; but we saw plainly by fhe length of the sentence, they 
were the same words : then her mouth shut. Afterwards, about a 
minute before she died, I said to her, ' My dear, you are far advanced 
through the dark valley, you have almost got through, now if God has 
heard our prayer, and you have more light and comfort, show it to us 
by lifting up your hand,' which she did with a transport three times. 
This is memorable ! Nay, after this, about half a minute before she 
breathed iier last, I took up her hand, which I thought was quite dead 
and said to her, that if yet she had her understanding and still more 
light and comfort, I would have more if she would bend her thumb, 
which she did, and then after a few short breaths more, breathed her 
soul sweetly into the hands of her Saviour, without a sigh or a 
groan." 

Mr. Smith found the care of a family of young children, the oldest 
but eleven, and the youngest not quite two years old, added to the 
burden of his other duties, too severe for him ; and no doubt the 
solitude of his situation increased his attacks of depression. Under 
these circumstances he sought relief in a second marriage, which took 
place March 1, 1744. The lady to whom he united himself on this 
occasion, was Mrs. Olive Jordan, widow of Capt. Samuel Jordan, of 
Saco, who died December 20, 1742, aged 58, a little more than two 
months after Mr. Smith's first wife. Mrs. Jordan's maiden name was 
Plaisted, and she was a native of Berwick. Her first husband was a 
descendant of the Rev. Robert Jordan, of Falmouth, the ancestor of 
all of that name among us ; and was a man of high character, and 
varied experience and usefulness. He was married to Miss Plaisted 
in 1718, and had by her seven children, born in the years 1719 to 
1733. Their names were Riskworth: Olive married to the Rev. Ivory 
Hovey, first of Rochester, then of Plymouth, Massachusetts, who died 
in 1803 ; Sarah, married to the Rev. Samuel Hill, of Marshfield, who 
came to Saco in 1752, and died in 1764 ; Hannah, married to the 
Rev. Moses Morrell, of Biddeford, whose name often occurs in the 
following journal ; Samuel, Tristam, and Martj the youngest, married 
to Capt. Philip Goldthwait, of Boston, who hved for a while at Saco. 

Mr. Smith lived with this lady about twenty years, when she died 



22 IVIEMOIR OF THK RKV, THOMAS SMTTH- 

siuldonly, January '], 1703, in the sixty-fifth year of her age : Leing' 
about four years his senior. 

His third wife was widow Elizabeth Wendell, to whom he was 
married August 12, 1766, and who survived him. She died March 
16, 1799, at the advanced age of eighty-three. She Avas the only 
daughter of Jolin Hunt, a merchant in Boston, and the widow 
of Jacob Wendell, a great grand son of Evart Janson Wendell who' 
came from Embden, in the Prussian dominions, alx)ut 164-5^ and! 
settled in Albany, N. Y, while it was a province of the Dutch, Avhere 
he died in 1709. Jacob graduated at Harvard College in 1733^ and 
established himself as a merchant in Boston, where he died in 1753. 
His wife was but eighteen years old at the time of their marriage ; her 
maiden name was Hunt, and her father was a respectable merchant 
in extensive business in Boston ; Jacob Wendell was the brother of 
the Hon. Oliver Wendell, who died in 1718. His children who 
survived him were Jacob, John Hunt, Elizabeth, married to Rev. Peter 
Thacher Smith, Rebecca and Mary. 

It is probable that the acquaintance with her commenced by the 
marriage of his son Peter with her daughter Elizabeth. She was a 
lady of fine manners, good education and dignified deportment. One 
of our aged citizens has told me that he was present with her at a 
wedding at which her husband officiated, where she gratified the 
company by dancing a minuet with all the ease and grace of an 
accomplished young lady, to the admiration of the company, many of 
whom had never seen that graceful and at that time, very fashionable 
dance. 

Few men have been more fortunate in domestic life, or enjoyed a 
longer period of happiness in it, than Mr. Smith. The whole terroj of 
his married life was sixty-three years, of which fourteen was with his 
first wife, twenty with his second and twenty-nine nearly, with his 
third. 

He had eight children, all by his first wife ; they were as follows, 
viz : Thomas, born September 19, 1729, died the next February ; 
Peter Thacher, named from Mr. Smith's former pastor and friend, was 
born June 14, 1731 ; and it may be mentioned here, as illustrative of 
the manners of the time and the smallness of the population, that all 
the married women upon the Neck were present at his birth, and 



iVIEMOlR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 23 

With their husbands were entertained with a supper on the occasion. * 
Lucy, born February 22, 1734 ; Thamas, born September 12, 1735 ; 
he was educated to mercantile pursuits and kept a store in the town 
on the corner of Middle and Franklin streets, where he carried on a 
large business, part of the time in company with his brother Jolin, 
and at another time with John Fox. In 1758, he married Lucy, a 
<laughter of Phineas Jones, and died without issue, at Gloucester, at 
the house of his sister Lucy, February 10, 1776, having earned the 
■epitaph inscribed on his tomb stone, " that man of honor and 
integrity." He was a man of fine personal appearance, dressed in 
•good taste in the style of his day, full bottomed wig and all, and was 
gentlemanly in his manners. The fifth child was William, who was 
born December 18, 1736, and while preparing for commercial life 
away from home, was cut down in his prime, at the early age of 
eighteen, October 16, 1754. The journal remarks : " I had the 
melancholy tidings to-day, that my son William died last Wednesday 
night." His son John, the sixth child, was born October 14, 1738. 
In 1754, he was apprenticed to Dr. Benjamin^Dearborn, of Portsmouth, 
for the study of medicine ; but Dr. Dearborn dying the next year, he 
was transferred to Dr. Nathaniel__Sargent, of the same place, with 
whom he boarded and completed his studies. He afterwards opened 
an apothecary shop in the same store in which his brother Thomas 
kept, and commenced practice as a physician. But he, too, by a 
sudden and premature death, December 26, 1773, disappointed the 
hopes and carried new anguish to the bosom of his often stricken 
father. Sarah, the seventh child, was born November 14, 1740 ; she 
married Deacon Richard Codman, in 1763, and died full of years, 
September 10, 1827, leaving children who are particularly mentioned 
under our notice of her husband in a note to the journal; one only 
of whom survives, viz : Mary, the wife of Wm. Swan, Esq., of this 
city. The last child was born September 6, 1742, and survived but a 
week, followed by its mother in a fortnight after. 

The only children who survived their father were Peter and Sarah, 
v;ho had the tenacity of life which he possessed, and like him, outlived 
the contemporaries of their early lives, and advanced far into posterity. 
They, with their sister Lucy, were the only ones who left issue. 

1. For this anecdote I am indebted to Mis. Codman, the sister of the uncon- 
scious subject of this disp?;ty. 



24 MEMOIR OF THE KEV. THOMAS SMITH. 

Lucy married the Hon. Thomas Sanders, of Gloucester, Massachu- 
setts, the latter part of 1751, or early in 1752 ; they were published 
November 2, 1751. Mr. Sanders was born Aug. 14, 1729, a descend- 
ant from Thomas Sanders, one of the first settlers of Cape Ann. 
His father, also Thomas, Avas many years in the naval service of the 
province : he is often mentioned in Mr. Smith's journal as arriving 
here, and transporting government officers and troops ; and at the 
seige of Louisburg, in 1745, he commanded the Province sloop of war. 
For his services in that expedition he received a special letter of thanks 
from the Admiral. He died October 24, 1774, aged seventy. The son 
pursued his preparatory studies under the care of the Rev. Moses 
Parsons, father of Chief Justice Parsons, and took his first degree at 
Harvard College in 1748. He engaged in commercial pursuits after 
leaving College, was representative to the General Court from 1761 to 
1770, and afterwards a councillor until 1773, when he resigned that 
honorable station, and died January 10, 1774, aged forty-five. 

Their children were Lucaj, born November 24, 1752; Thomas, 
Decembers, 1753, died July 26, 1754; Judith, born June 1, 1755; 
Harriet, April 2, 1757 ; Thomas, March 26, 1759 ; Sarah, March 1, 
1761; Charlotte, 1762 ; Willia??!, Charles, Joseph and Mary. Lucy 
married Paul Dudley Sargent, Esq., then of Boston, afterwards of 
SuUivan, Maine. He was a Colonel in the revolutionary army, and 
died in 1828, leaving a large family; Judith married her cousin, 
Thomas Sanders, of Gloucester, who graduated at Harvard College, 
1772 ; he dissipated a large fortune and died 1795, leaving a widow 
and two daughters ; Harriet married Major Peter Dolliver, of Boston, 
an officer of the revolution, and afterwards in the Revenue service ; 
they left three daughters and one son; Sarah, who was a very 
beautiful woman, married Thomas Augustus Vernon, an English 
merchant, of very respectable family, settled at St. Petersburg in 
Russia, where they both died, leaving two sons and two daughters ; 
Charlotte remained unmarried and died in 1847, aged eighty-five ; 
Mary married Erasmus Babbitt, a lawy-er in Sturbridge, Massachu- 
setts, who graduated at Harvard College, 1790, and died in 1816, 
leaving two children. Of the sons, William and Charles died young ; 
and Joseph, a Lieutenant in the Navy in 1800, of high promise, died 
soon after, leaving a widow and one daughter ; Thomas resided here 
before the revolution, was a Clerk with his uncle Thomas Smith, and 



Or 

MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. «& 

was present at the bombardment of the town in 1775 ; he became, 
afterwards, a wealthy and respectable merchant in Salem, Massachu- 
setts, where he died June 5, 1844, aged eighty-four. In 1782, he 
married Elizabeth Elkins, a lineal descendant of Peregrine White, the 
first Englishman born in New England, who was born at Plymouth, 
in November, 1620, and died in Marshfield, July, 1704, aged eighty- 
three. She is still living, 1849, at the ripe age of eighty-seven. 
Their children were Charles, born 1783, and graduated at Harvard 
College, 1802, married to Charlotte, a sister of the Rev. Dr. Nichols, 
of this city, and successor of Mr. Smith ; Catherine, married to 
Dudley L. Pickman ; Mary E., married to Leverett Saltonstall, who 
graduated at Harvard College in 1802; Carolim, to Nathaniel 
Saltonstall, brother of Leverett ; the two who are now dead have three 
sons, through whom and their deceased brother Richard that ancient 
and worthy name in Massachusetts is preserved ; Liicy, died unmar- 
ried, aged 17 ; George Thomas, the youngest, graduated at Harvard 
College in 1824, who has two sons, by whom alone the family name of 
Sanders in this branch, is transmitted. Charles Sanders, Esq., who 
now resides in Newton, Massachusetts, and his two brothers in law, 
Dr. Nichols and Leverett Saltonstall, were graduates of the same class. 
Mrs. Lucy Sanders, the daughter of Mr. Smith, contracted a second 
marriage in 1776, with the Rev. Ely Forbes, who was that year 
installed over the first Parish in Gloucester. He had been previously 
settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts, from which he was dismissed in 
March, 1776, on suspicion of having entertained tory principles. He 
graduated at Harvard College, 1751, was ordained at Brookfield, 
1752, and died December 15, 1804, aged 77, having had two children, 
Eli and Polly, by his first wife, who was a daughter of Rev. Ebenezer 
Parkman, of Westboro'. She had no children by Mr. Forbes, with 
whom she lived a little less than four years, and died June 5, 1780, 
aged forty-six. The afilicted father, on the tenth of June, records in 
his journal : " I had the shocking tidings of the death of my daughter 
Lucy." 

Peter Thacher, the only son of our pastor who received a collegiate 
education, took his first degree at Harvard College, in 1753, at the 
age of twenty-two. In a class of seventeen, he is placed the sixth in 
dignity, and was the survivor of all ; his kinsman by marriage, Oliver 
Wendell, next to him in survivorship, having died eight years earlier, 
4 



26 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 

Gov. Oliver, Rev. Dr. Dana, of New Haven, and William Enang, an 
officer in the British army prior to the Revolution, and a benefactor of 
Harvard College, were among his class mates. After leaving College, 
Mr. Smith kept school a number of years, while pursuing the study of 
his profession ; part of the time upon the Neck, and a considerable 
portion at Weymouth, in Massachusetts, at which place he was 
invited to settle in the ministry and declined. He had preached 
occasionally at Windham to the acceptance of the people, who had 
been destitute of a settled ministry since 1754, when their first pastor, 
the Rev. John Wight, died. In 1759, he was invited by the people 
to preach with them six months, and in November, 1761, he received 
an urgent appeal to return there ; the writer of the letter urging that 
he would not be discouraged from coming " where you preached your 
first sermon to us, who always admired your person and your 
preaching to that degree, that Ave resolve to make trial of no other man 
for our ministry till you absolutely refuse to accept of our call." The 
proprietors of the town, which was not yet incorporated, contributed 
to the support of the ministry, and uniting their appeal to that of the 
people, he was induced to comply with their wishes. The proprietors 
in their letter to the inhabitants, in January, 1762, say : " We have 
the pleasure to advise you that you are now in a fair way to obtain 
what you have so often requested, viz : the settlement of Mr. Smith, 
in the work of the ministry with you. The Committee finding the 
most considerable part of you inclined to Mr. Smith, have prevailed 
on him to come to you. Mr. Smith's character stands fair in the 
minds of the Committee and principal proprietors, and we do heartily 
recommend him to your choice and acceptance." 

The ordination took place September 22, 1762, to the great 
gratification of his father, who thus expresses his pleasure on the 
occasion : " A prodigious concourse of people, a great and admired 
solemnity. It was thought by all to be the most finished solemnity of 
the kind ever known." Some allowance must of course be made for 
this laudatory language, in the excited and happy frame of mind of a 
fond parent. The whole population of Windham, then called New 
Marblehead, but incorporated the same year, was at that time embraced 
in thirty-nine families, without a meeting house to assemble in ; the 
religious services being held in the Fort, which that year it was voted 
to provide with five windows, and under continued dread of Indian 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 27 

invasion. Tiie whole population which could be gathered from all 
the region round, would hardly come up to our idea of " a prodigious 
concourse," even in a day when prodigious viass meetings were 
unknown. The population of the whole State did not exceed twenty- 
five thousand. Ordinations were then rare events, at least in this 
section of the country; and as attracting and interesting as they were 
rare. They were frequented by people from neighboring and quite 
distant towns, and the religious festival was made the occasion of 
social and friendly intercourse on the part of the clergy, and of 
conviviality and good cheer with all. In one of these scenes, the 
ordination of Mr. Foxcroft, at New Gloucester, in January, 1765, our 
honest hearted Journalist has unwittingly lifted the curtain a little : 
"A jolly ordination," says he, " we lost sight of decorum; Mr. L. 
(Longfellow) was alert and kept us merry." 

In those days when a rigid reserve was maintained in exterior 
deportment, and a stiff dignity kept up in the general intercourse of 
society, every fitting season was improved, not only in the clerical, but 
other professions, to throw off the conventional mask, and to give free 
play to their social feelings. When they did relax their grave and 
formal attitudes, they were apt to go over to the other extreme, car- 
rying their indulgence farther than those were accustomed to do 
who practised less restraint in their daily conversation with the world. 

Mr. Peter Smith's settlement was not without opposition, which 
continued through his whole ministry, arising partly from the number 
of Quakers and Quaker principles in town. It had increased to such 
a degree in 1787, that a mutual council was held at Windham, in 
October of that year, to give advice on the subject, of which the Rev. 
Mr. Gilman, of North Yarmouth, was moderator, and Dr. Deane, of 
this town, was Scribe. The council, reciting " that nothing has been 
offered against the orthodoxy or christian conversation of the Eev. 
Pastor, and that a part of the people are satisfied with his ministry," 
advised that he should continue in the ministry until the last of the 
next March, and then if the prospect should be no better of a 
reconcilement of the existing difficulties, that he would be justified in 
asking, and the church in granting, a dissolution of his ministerial 
relations. The delay produced no relief, but rather further estrange- 
ment ; for in the autumn of 1788, the people in tenon meeting, the 
embodiment of public opinionj undertook to dismiss him against all 



28 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH, 

ecclesiastical usage. Another council was held in October, 1790, 
which recommended to the Pastor forthwith to ask a dismission, and 
that he should, instead of his contract for settlement, be exempted 
from taxes seventeen years in the same manner as if he had continued 
in the ministry, and have the use of the parsonage lot until another 
minister should be settled. After giving some wise counsel to the 
people, they add : " And in order to promote their religious edification, 
we think it necessary that they build a house for public worship." 

After his dismission, Mr. Smith continued to reside in Windham, 
the remainder of his life, in easy circumstances, surrounded by his 
children and grand children, discharging the duties of a magistrate, 
and a Christian man, enjoying the respect of the community and the 
serenity of a tranquil old age. Death at last came to him, on the 
26th of October, 1826, in his ninety-sixth year, to relieve him of the 
burden of this mortal life. 

He was a man of infinite humor, which he was never anxious to 
restrain ; and of free and agreeable address. He was tall and portly in 
his person, resembling more his mother's than his father's kindred ; 
his venerable appearance in the costume of the by-gone age, his 
breeches, three cornered hat, wig and ample coat, attracted general 
observation, as he occasionally visited the town of his birth, over the 
ruins of which, after its destmction in 1775, he bitterly grieved ; and 
which drew from him a sermon preached in the old and shattered 
meeting house here, soon after the sad event, from the memorable 
words, " He beheld the city and wept over it." 

He was twice married, the first time to Elizabeth Wendell, daughter 
of Jacob and Elizabeth (Hunt) Wendell, of Boston, October 8, 1765, 
by the Rev. Dr. Sewall, of the old South Church. By her he had all 
his children ; she died October 16, 1799, aged fifty-seven. ' On 

1, Jacob Wendell, Esq., of Portsmouth, has furnished me some particulars in 
regard to this respectable family, which may be interesting in this connection. 

The first of the family who came to this country was Evart Janson Wendell ; he 
emigrated from Embden, in East Friesland, about 1645, and settled in Albany, 
N. Y., where he died in 1709. His son John, was the ftither of the Hon. Jacob 
Wendell, who was born in Albany, August 5, 1691; Jacob came to Boston while a 
minor, and was placed under the care of John Mico, a respectable merchant in that 
town, at whose house he was married to Sarah, daughter of James and Mercy 
Oliver, August 12, 171-1. He died September 7, 1761, aged seventy-one, and his 
wife died July 22, 1762, aged sixty-si.\. Their children were 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 29 

November 1, 1801, he married Mrs. Jane Loring, third daughter of 
Shrimpton Hunt, and widow of Dr. Loring, of Boston, who survived 
him. 

His children were as follows, viz : Elizabeth Hunt, born August 
16, 1766, married John Farwell, of Tyngsborough, and died 
November 28, 1807 ; Sarah, born April 9, 1768, married Hezekiah 
Smith, of Gorham, and is living; Lucy, born August 24, 1769, 
married Abraham Anderson, of Windham, and died April 17, 1844 ; 
she was the mother of the Hon. John Anderson, of this town, and 
other children ; Thomas, born October 2, 1770, died February 27, 
1802; John Tyng, born March 6, 1772, married Mary Duguid, a 
Scotch lady, connected with the family of Capt. Alexander Ross, in 
which she resided ; they both are living in Gorham, on a farm which 
Mr. Smith cleared up more than half a century ago. They have had 
six sons, two of whom are dead, viz : John Duguid, who was preparing 
for the ministry, and Arthur M., a shipmaster ; Mary, bom July 6, 
1774, married Jonathan Winslow, of Albion, in this State, where they 
both are now living ; Peter, born Nov. 6, 1775, survived but three 

Jacob, born September 4, 1715, graduated at Harvard College, 1733, married 
Elizabeth Hunt, 1735, died 1753. 

Mary, born June 22, 1717, died August 6, 1771. 

Elizabeth, born January 20, 1719, married Richard Wibird, of Portsmouth, N. H. 

Sarah, born March 3, 1720, married John Hunt, of Boston. 

Mary, born April 10, 1722, married Nathaniel Oliver : she died before 1761. 

Catherine, born June 18, 1726, married William Cooper, Town Clerk of Boston. 

John Mico, born May 30, 1728; married Catharine Brattle : died about 1774. 

Ann, born December 7, 1730, married John Penhallovv, of Portsmouth. 

Oliver, born March 5, 1733, married Mary, daughter of Edward Jackson and 
Dorothy Quincy : he died January 5, 1818. 

Abraham, born Nov. 2, 1735. 

Susannah, born June 15, 1737, died unmarried. 

INIargaret, born August, 1739, married William Phillips, and died February 27, 
1823. 

Jacob Wendell, now living in Portsmouth, descended from the same source, 
through John, a brother of the fii-st Jacob. His father was John, born in September, 
1731. Descendants in the female branches are numerous, as names frequently 
indicate, viz : John Wendell Mellen, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Oliver Wendell 
Phillips, &c. The origin of the Oliver and the Wendell, will be perceived in the 
foregoing statement. Oliver Wendell, a classmate of Peter T. Smith, was a nuin 
of virtue and talents, and held numerous offices of honor and trust during a long life 
'of eighty-five years. 



30 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 

days ; A?vi Wendell, bom March 28, 1777, married Charles Barker, 
of Windham, where he now resides ; Rebecca, born June 15, 1778, 
died April 19, 1782; Susannah Wendell, bom March 31, 1780, 
married to George C. Thomas, of Tyngsborough, and is dead; 
Rebecca, bom -September 2-5, 1783, died unmarried October 31, 1808. 

Having been thus diverted, by following the stream which proceeded 
from the main trunk, we recur again to our venerable pastor. He 
continued in the ministry for the unusual period of sixty-eight years, 
two months, seventeen days, and officiated in a portion of the services 
of the Sabbath till within two years of his death, which took place on 
the 25th of May, 1795, having just entered upon his ninety-fourth year. 

Mr. Smith was short in stature, but pretty full in person, and erect. 
He lived until 1775, in the house built for him by the inhabitants, and for 
some years the best in town, which stood on Congress street, opposite 
the head of India street ; Avhich two streets then bore the names of 
Queen, or the Back street, and King street. This house was the first 
in town to receive the ornament of a house paper, which was put upon 
one of its rooms by nails ; it was the last burnt in the conflagration 
of 1775, having caught from Capt. Sanford's, which stood on the 
corner of King and Congress streets, as he notes in his journal. He 
Avas taken from town that day with his wife, by his son Peter, and 
removed to Windham, where he resided through the war. On his 
return to town, he occupied the two story wooden house in which his 
son Thomas had lived, now standing on the corner of Wilmot and 
Congress streets, in which he died. 

He died on Monday, May 25, and was buried on the Friday after. 
The following notice in regard to the funeral was issued the day after 
his death : 

"ORDER OF PROCESSION 

To be observed at the Funeral of the Reverend Thomas Smith, senior Pastor ol' the 

First Parish, in Portland. 



He will be interred next Friday afternoon. The Funeral Procession to be formed 
at the dwelling house of the deceased. 



PROCESSION. 

Male members of the Churches in Portland. 

Officers of the Churches. 

Ministers of Portland. 

THE CORPSE. 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 31 

Relatives of the Deceased. 

Ministers of other towns. 

Judges and Officers of the Court. 

Male Citizens. 

Females. 

CARRIAGES. 

The first bell to strike at half past one o'clock : 

The second at half past two, and to continue till the procession shall arrive at the 

Meeting house. 

DIVINE SERVICE 

Will begin at three o'clock. 1. Anthem. 2. A Prayer. 3. A Hymn. 4. An 

Oration. 5. Conclude with an Anthem. 

The Procession 

Will then move in the order above mentioned, by the Hay Market, to the place 

of interment. 
May 26, 1795. 

The following is an extract from Mr. Kellogg's Address at the 
Church : 

" A life of more than ninety-three years, how replete with incidents ! What 
changes must the possessor have seen ! On the record of Harvard's sons, we find 
his solitary name ; to all around is prefixed the signature of death. The wilderness 
where he first pitched his tent, is now the place of vineyards and of gardens. Not 
a soul that first composed his flock, is now in the land of the living ! He beheld a 
wide destruction in his own family, which came in upon him like a breach of 
waters. He lived under the reigns of four different sovereigns. He saw death 
take one Governor after another from the head of the Province; Judges from the 
Bench, and Ministers of God from his temple. What changes, what vicissitudes 
are here ! They conduct us through a long tract of lapsed time. We are walking 
among the tombs of our fathers. Venerable Pilgrim ! Thy long journey is happily 
closed. Thy way worn body hath at length found its rest." 

The nearest descendants of Mr. Smith now remaining, are five 
grand children, viz : the four children of his son Peter, and one 
daughter of Mrs. Codman, married to Wm. Swan, Esq., of this city. 

We cannot better close this notice, than by an extract from the 
discourse of his colleague, Dr. Deane, who Ijad stood by his side at the 
altar, more than thirty years, delivered on the Sunday after his burial. 
It gives a complete summary of his life and character, in a neat, 
simple and unvarnished style. And it is due to Mr. Kellogg and his 
society to say, that the congregation and minister of the Second parish, 
attended in a body at the delivery of this sermon, out of respect to the 
memory of the deceased : 

" He was the son of Thomas Smith, Esq., late merchant in Boston, and bom 



32 MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 

in that capital of Masf3achusefts, on tlifi tenth day of March, old style, in the year 
of our Lord 1702. In his early youth, and as he has often said, too early, being 
only fourteen years of age, he was, after a laudable progress in the preparatory 
studies, admitted as a student of Harvard College, in Cambridge, where, during his 
four years' residence, he so well performed his exercises as to receive approbation. 
But his improvement became more rapid after he had received the honors of that 
excellent seat of learning; as from principle, he pursued his studies with increasing 
industry, while his judgment was advancing nearer to maturity. In the vigor of 
youth, though born to good prospects, and with a genius fit to have shined in other 
important professions, he devoted himself to the most important, laborious and 
self-denying work of the evangelical ministry, and applied himself sedulously to 
theological studies. 

At his first exhibitions in the sacred desk, though he was not more than twenty-two 
years of age, his performances, both in free prayer and in preaching, were much 
approved by the ablest judges, and his popularity was remarkable. After officiating 
with applause in Boston, and different parts of the adjacent country ; and after having 
had invitations to settle, which he declined on account of his youth; he was induced 
about the year 1726, to proceed to this place, to act in the double capacity of 
chaplain to the troops stationed here, and preacher to the inhabitants of Falmouth, 
\vho consisted of no more than about forty families, some of which were respectable. 
After more than a year's residence among them, at their unanimous call and 
importunity, he was induced courageously to give himself to the ministry here, though 
this was at that time a place greatly exposed to the furious incursions of the savages 
of the wilderness. 

On the eighth day of March, in the year 1727, the church was formed, consisting 
of only ten male members, besides the elect pastor, of which ten, not one has been 
living for a considerable number of years past. On the same day Mr. Smith was 
ordained pastor of the church, it being the first church that was gathered to the 
eastward of Wells; since which time his pastoral relation has continued to the day 
of his decease, which was sixty-eight years, and two months and a half, which 
brought him into the ninety-fourth year of his age. He preached in liis turn till the 
close of the year 1784, and his mental faculties since that period have been so little 
impaired, that until within about a year and a half of his decease, he has assisted 
in the work of the sanctuary, with ability and to edification, by his public prayers. 
Not more than one instance is recollected of a ministry in this country, so long 
protracted.* This servant of God is a memorable, and almost singular instance, not 
only of longevity, but of continued usefulness in his sacred employment, in which 
he acted with industry and zeal. As a star in the east to lead men to Christ, he 
shone in the pulpit with superior lustre; and for a long course of years, has been 
considered as the most distinguished preacher in this part of the country. 

Though his voice was always feeble, the excellency of his elocution, accompanied 
with a venerable and becoming gravity, rendered his performances very acceptable. 

* Dr. Ebenezer Gay, of Hingham, ordained June 11, 1718, died in the ministry 
March 18, 1787: his ministry was sixty-eight years, nine months, seven days. 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS SMITH. 33 

Possessing in high degrees the gift and spirit of prayer, devotion could not but be 
excited in the breasts of the serious part of his audience. In sermons, his composi- 
tion was elegant, and his language chaste and correct. Nor was he wanting in 
animation and pathos, in his pertinent addresses to different sorts of hearers. He 
was punctual and frequent in his pastoral visits to the sick and afflicted, to whom he 
was an important and able adviser and assistant. His visits were the more highly- 
prized by the sick, as he was considered as skilful in medicine, which he practised 
gratis among his people, for a number of years, in the infancy of tlie settlement. 
Watchfulness against sectarism, and a steady and decided friend to the congregational 
churches, he was a constant asserter of the doctrine of grace, according to the 
rational scheme of moderate Calvuiism. He knew how to unite orthodoxy with 
candor and charity, like the late excellent Dr. Isaac Watts, whose theological 
writings he much approved. 

Constitutionally possessed of exquisite sensibility, he was convinced that his task 
was the more difficult to govern himself according to the strict rules of reason and 
religion; but this did not deter him from the undertaking. Blest with a singular 
strength of memory, which he retained but with little abatement to the last, and with 
a lively imagination, his conversation was at once instructive and entertaining. His 
course of life was not only regular and useful, but in many respects exemplary and 
alluring. Perhaps the most striking traits in his religious character were his 
spirituality in devotion and communion with God ; and his mos^ exact and scrupulous 
temperance in all things which, under God, undoubtedly contributed to the long 
continuance of a constitution not naturally strong. His hearers can witness how 
often he enlivened their souls with the fervency of his addresses to the throne of 
grace in public; how ready he was ui private to give a spiritual and heavenly turn 
to conversation; and what a faculty he had of doing it with dignity and ease, in a 
manner not apt to disgust, but to attract and edify. They have observed his 
conversation enough to convince them that his mind was habitually turned to things 
of everlasting importance. They have seen how constant and well directed his 
endeavors have been to promote the interest of religion ; and how great and laudable 
his concern for the welfare of inmiortal souls. 

Considering the celebrity of his public discourses, it is rather strange that his 
publications have been so few. 

We know of none besides a sermon delivered at the ordination of the Rev, 
Solomon Lombard, at Gorham, and another preached to the sea-faruig men of his 
own parish. 

In the varying scenes of life, and in so long a course of years, it is no wonder that 
his afflictions have been great and manifold. He has not only paid the usual tax 
upon long life, being bereaved of most of his family and dear connections by death ; 
but seen this flourishing settlement, his own house among the rest, a prey to devour- 
ing flames, kindled by a merciless foe. All which, besides many other trying 
providences, he has borne with most remarkable fortitude and resignation. In 
addition to his other qualifications of a christian bishop, he was given to hospitality. 
In his better days, his house has been the noted resort of foreigners, and strangers 
5 



34 MEMOIR OF THE REV, THOMAS SMITH. 

from different parts of this country, and of his clerical brethren, where they were 
generously entertamed. lie knew what it was to devise liberal things, and feel 
for the unhappy. Ever charitable and tender hearted, his lenity towards debtors, 
and relinquishment of just debts and claims, have been such as might only be 
expected from one who placed his trust in the care of Divine Providence, and did 
not consider his treasure as lying this side of heaven. In imitation of St. Paul, he 
often sacrificed his right for the furtherence of the gospel. The reality of his 
patriotism is beyond dispute. 

In the late war, which our unnatural enemies made upon ns, he deeply commis- 
erated the case of his oppressed and bleeding country; and most affectionate and 
persevering' were his supplications to heaven for her deliverance. 

In the last week of his life, he informed me " that in his early youth, he had 
solemnly dedicated himself to the service of God, and particularly before his 
ordination; and that through the course of his life, he had been wont to hold 
solemn days of fasting and secret devotion." He added " that he had often 
experienced the greatest comfort in these seasons of extraordinary communion 
with God; and often wished he could have continued in such frames, as when 
in the monut with God. But he had never experienced such ineffable joys of 
assurance as some Christians are said to have enjoyed." 

Since I have been much acquainted with the state of his mind, which is several 
years, the thought of approaching dissolution appeared to be uncomfortable and 
dismal to him. And it seems that the thought of this great change was seldom 
absent from his mind. But as death drew near, his fear of it was apparently 
abated. He improved in many of the Christian graces. He was more and more 
constant and affectionate in prayer. Lamenting his imperfections, and renouncing 
all self-dependence, his hope was placed on the mercy of God through the merits 
of the Redeemer. 

He seemed towards the last to have almost, or quite conquered all fear of the last 
enemy. For he said in my hearing, more than once, " I long to be in the arms of 
my dear Redeemer." And once he uttered these expressions, " I do not wish to 
continue here; I can do nothing but trouble my friends." Without much apparent 
disease, his nature was exhausted by a gradual decay. He had apparently no 
pangs in his death; but calmly fell asleep, as we trust, in Jesus. Such was our 
venerable friend, and such his exit. 



EXTRACTS 



FROM THE 



JOURNALS 



OF THE 



REV. THOMAS SMITH. 



PREFACE 

TO THE EDITION OF 1821 



It has long been known to a number who were cotemporary with the 
Rev. Thomas Smith, late Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Fahnouth, 
a part of which is now Portland, in the State of Maine, that he was in the practice 
of keeping an Historical Diary. The desire has been expressed by them and 
others that it might be published. 

When the late Governor Sullivan was writing his history of Maine, he 
applied to Mr. Smith for the use of this Journal in order to complete his account of 
the Indian Wars, &c. ; but Mr. Smith was unwilling to comply with his request, 
because the Journal contained a mixture of private matters not proper to be exposed 
to public view. It having come into my possession, I have been induced, with the 
consent of his surviving children, to make and pruit such extracts from it as I 
thought might be useful and entertaining to those especially who from local 
circumstances would be apt to take a peculiar interest in the transactions to which 
they relate. 

The Diary commences with the year 1720, and reaches to the year 1788, a 
greater length of time probably, than that during which any similar record has been 
kept within the limits of this State. 

The matters I here present the public are, 1. Notices of such Foreign Events 
as came to the knowledge of Mr. Smith during that period. 2. Domestic 
Occurrences; or such as took place m the town of Falmouth, and its vicinity, from 
the tune of his coming there in 1725, with marginal notes as to the particulars of 
some of the events which are but slightly mentioned. [These were taken from 
Holmes' Annals, and chiefly as he quoted them from prior writers.] And 3. A 
view of the life and character of the deceased. Also a separate account of the 
Seasons. 



38 PREFACE. 

In the selection of those matters I may have been either more minute or more 
deficient tlian another person would have been, but in faithfulness to that trust which 
was confided in me when the Journal was put into my possession, I could not put it 
into another's hands. I have noticed some things not so much for the things them- 
selves as for other reasons, which will probably be apparent to the discerning reader; 
and as to the state of the seasons and of the weather in the different parts of the 
year, which I have inserted separately, partly in the words of the Journalist and 
partly (for conciseness) in my own. I would observe that they contain but an 
abridgement of what is recorded in respect to them. To have been more particular 
would have swelled the work too much; to have been less so, would have rendered 
this part of it too imperfect ; and to have left it out entirely, might have been 
regretted by those who wish for an opportunity to compare former times, in respect 
thereto, with the present; and the state of the atmosphere, with the health or 
sickness prevailing at the time. 

Upon the whole, whether the extracts I have made will be received with such 
acceptance as some who have encouraged their publication may expect, I will not 
presume to judge. If they should, in the perusal of them, afford that gratification 
which has been contemplated, I shall not regret the time I have taken to prepare 
them; if otherwise, I shall only regret their publication. 

Upon the few additions to these extracts, it is not necessary to observe. 

Of the matters which are contained in the Appendix, some notice will be taken in 

the Preface to that part of the work. 

S. F. 
July, 1821. 



EXTRACTS 



FROM 



SMITH'S JOURNAL 



1719. 

It appears by his Journals of the succeeding years, numbered 
2, 3, 4, &c., that Mr. Smith began to keep a journal this year ; but 
what became of it I do not know. That for the next year is the 
oldest in my possession. 

1720. 

Mr. Smith entered the College at Cambridge, A. D. 1716, and 
having made the study of Hebrew a part of his employment, he 
intended probably to qualify himself as a minister of the gospel. He 
took his first degree the present year. He went frequently to Boston 
and other places ; but the incidents he takes notice of through 
the year, are unimportant. He mentions the names of the following 
gentlemen as ministers of the gospel at this time, viz : * Thatcher, 
Sewall, Checkley, Prince, Webb and Chauncey. ^ 

1. Thatcher, Peter, settled at Milton, son of Rev. Thomas Thatcher, of Boston, 
born at Salem, 1651, graduated at Harvard College 1671, and died in December, 
1727, aged 77. There was also a Peter Thatcher settled as Colleague with 
Mr. Webb, in the New North Church, Boston, January, 1720, sou of Thomas 
Thatcher, who graduated at Harvard College, 1696, Mr. Smith's pastor. He died 
February 26, 1739. 

Sewall, Joseph, settled over the Old South Church in Boston, 1713; he graduated 
at Harvard College 1707, and died 1769. 

Checkley, Samuel, settled over the New South Society, in Boston, 1719; 
graduated at Harvard College 1715; died December 1, 1769. 



40 smith's journal, 

1721. 

May 12. About this time the small pox was brought into Boston.'' 
26, The small pox began to spread, t 
Jidy 13. Fast, on account of the small pox. 

[He mentions the names of several ministers in the vicinity of 
Boston, viz : " Cook, Appleton, Foxcroft, Gee, Fessenden, Flint, 

Prince, Thomas, author of the New England Chronology; graduated at Harvard 
College 1707; ordained over the Old South 1718; died October 22, 175S, aged 71. 

Webb, John, graduated at Harvard College 1708; ordained over the New North 
Society in Boston, October 20, 1714; died April 16, 1750. 

Chauncey, Isaac, graduated at Haivard College 1693; settled at Tladley, Mass., 
1696, and died May 2, 1745, aged 74. 

Beside the above there were at that time settled in the ministry in Boston, 
Increase Mather, Old North, died 1723. Cotton Mather, same Church, died 1728. 
Benjamin Colman, Brattle street, died 1747. Ellis Callender, Baptist. Henry 
Harris, Episcopalian, died 1729. William Cooper, Brattle Street, died 1748. 
Thomas Foxcroft, first Church, died 1769. Elisha Callender, Baptist, Andrew L. 
Mercier, French Protestant, left 1748, commenced 1719. — JK'ew England His- 
torical and Gen. Register, 1 vol. p. 134. 

1. Hutchinson says (vol. 2, p. 247) that it was brought in by the Saltortugas 
fleet, about the middle of April. 

2. Appleton, Nathaniel, graduated at Harvard College, 1712 ; ordained at Cam- 
bridge, 1717; died 1784, aged 91. 

Gee, Joshua, colleague with Cotton Mather, in Boston; died 1748, aged 50. 

Waldron, William, son of Richard Waldron, of Portsmouth, N. H. ; born 1697; 
graduated at Harvard College, 1717; ordained over New Brick Church, Boston, 
1722; died 1727. 

*In this year commenced the publication of the Boston Gazette, the second 
newspaper published in America. The first was the Boston JVews Letter, 
(a weekly newspaper), first published in 1704. The third was the JSTew England 
Courant, commenced in 1721. I have one of these in my possession, printed 
January 15, 1726. It was printed by Benjamin Franklin, chiefly on a pica type, 
in two columns, and on half a sheet, of the size of pot writing paper. F. 

■f It made great havoc there, and in some of the neighboring towns inoculation 
for that disease was now introduced into New England, and a trial of it recom- 
mended to the physicians, by the Rev. Cotton Mather. All however declined it, 
but Doctor Zabdiel Boylston, who adventured to begin with his own family, and 
afterwards continued the practice amidst violent opposition. Many pious people 
were struck with horror, and were of opinion, that if any of his patients should 
die, he ought to be treated as a murderer. The populace was so enraged, that his 
family was liardly safe in his house; and he was often insulted in the streets. F. 



smith's journal. 41 

Waldron, Prentice, Wigglesworth. Cotton and Ward. The pages of 
this year's journal are somewhat fuller than the last, but not 
interesting.] 

1722. 

January 3. Boston almost clear of the small pox, and wholly of 
inoculation. 

February 2G. * Town judged to be quite clear of the small pox. 

July 12. " The Indians killed a man and drove the English into 
the garrison, and at night, Capt. Stannan and others, killed sixteen or 
eighteen of those Indians. 

26, War proclaimed with E. Indians. 

Fessenden, Benjamin, graduated at Harvard College, 1718; settled at Sandwich. 
He was son of Nicholas who came from England, and settled at Cambridge. 

Flint, Henry, gradnated at Harvard College, 1693; died 1760, aged 84; tutor 
at Harvard College, 49 years. He was son of Josiah Flint, minister of Dorchester. 

Cotton, John, son of Rev. Roland Cotton, of Sandwich; born 1693; graduated 
at Harvard College, 1710; settled at Newton, Mass., 1714, and died there 1757. 

Ward, Robert, graduated at Harvard College, 1719; died 1732. 

Cook, William, graduated at Harvard College, 1716; settled in Sudbury, 1723; 
died 1760. 

Wigglesworth, Edward, graduated at Harvard College, 1710; first Hollis Pro- 
fessor of Divinity, 1722; died January 16, 1765, aged 72. 

1. "Of five thousand five hundred and eighty-nine who took the small pox in 
Boston, eight hundred and forty-four died." Hutchinson, vol. 2, p. 247. " Not- 
withstanding the most severe opposition, about three hundred were inoculated in 
Boston and the adjacent towns." lb. 25. 

2. " The Indian War raged destructively in Maine during this year. Nine 
families were captured in Merry Meeting Bay, in June ; and in September, 
Brunswick and Georgetown were destroyed. This was partly to avenge the 
seizure of Father Ralle's papers, by Col. Thomas Westbrook, in 1721, at Norridge- 
wock. He proceeded there with three hundred men for the purpose of capturing 
the Priest, who was supposed to have incited the Indians to renewed hostilities. 
But he escaped, and his papers and letters were seized, as also his hand book 
' Medulla theologiae moralis, facili perspicua methodo resolvens casus Conscientise,' 
which is now in my possession. This year thirty men were stationed at Falmouth. 
The men on the Neck, now Portland, were twenty-four, and were stationed at 
Major Moody's (King street), Ingersoll's in Fore street, and Wass's, near the 
head of Wilmot street. In Purpoodock, at Sawyer's and York's were four men 
and a Corporal, and at Dom. Jordan's, in Spurwink, were three men and a 
Corporal. In September, the garrisons at Purpoodock were increased to twelve 
men, and at Spurwink to nine, under command of Dom. Jordan. — Hist, of Port- 
land, 2. 38. 

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42 smith's journal. 

October 2. Hot, more so than ever was known before at tliis 
season, 

[In September of this year, Mr, Smith preached at Maiden and 
Sandwich ; and this seems to be the commencement of his frequent 
performances afterwards,] 

1723. 

January 6. I preached at Bellingham. 

7. The Committee of Bellingham was with me to acquaint me of 
their call. 

16. There has been nothing like winter yet. This month has 
been the hottest that ever was felt in this country. 

Fehrtcary 4. The sharpest weather ever known at this time of 
the year. 

24. The greatest storm and highest tide that has been known in 
the country. 

March 21. I gave Bellingham an answer. 

Augu'&t 29. Mr. Foxcroft preached a funeral sermon on Dr. 
Mather, who is this day buried. * 

1724. 

January 8. Doctor Cook' sailed for England as agent for this 
Province. 

* This was Increase Mather, who was President of Harvard College from 1685 to 
1701. He had been a preacher sixty-six years, and a minister of the same church in 
Boston sixty-two years. He died in the eighty-fifth year of his age. His father, 
Richard Mather, came to New England in 1634, having been silenced by Dr. Neal, 
Archbishop of York, and was the last minister of Dorchester, and died in 1669, 
aged seventy-three. His son, Cotton Mather, a minister of Boston, died in 1728, at 
the age of sixty-five ; all eminently pious and learned men. The last was the 
author of Magnalia ChrisH AmericatKB. The books and tracts which this 
author published, amounted to three hundred and eighty-two. Among his manu- 
scripts was a work which he prepared for publication, entitled Biblia AmericancB, 
or the Scriptures of the Old and A'ew Testament illustrated. " The writing of 
which" says his biographer " is enough constantly to employ a man, unless he be 
a miracle of diligence the half of three score years and ten allowed us." A 
catalogue of the three hundred and eighty-two books which he published, is 
subjoined to his life. F. 

1. Elisha Cook, of Boston, H. C. 1697, for many years a leader of the popular 
party in Massachusetts, in opposition to the administration of Gov. Shute. He died 
in 1737. Hutchinson says he sailed January 18. 



SMITHS JOURNAL. 43 

11. Visible eclipse of the sun. 

12. The pirates had their trial and all cleared but four. 
June 2. Two pirates were hanged, viz : Archer and White. 
July 23. Mr. Webb's Lecture turned into a Fast, by reason of the 

very great drought, every thing being burnt up. 
August 10. Mr. Sewall ' was chosen President of the College. 

1725. 

February 26. Saturday last, Capt. Lovell and Company who sat 
out the 20th of last month, fell upon a company of ten Indians and 
killed them all. 

March 10. Dies mea 7iataUs [vicessima tertia.) 

April 29. Mr. Webb's Lecture turned into a Fast, upon the 
account of the war. 

May 15. We have an account that this day se'night, Capt. 
Lovell's company had a bloody battle with the Indians. The 
Captain, Lieutenant and fifteen others killed.* 

July 21. The forces here went away for ''Richmond in order to 
niarch to Penobscot. 

1. Rev. Joseph Sewall, son of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, minister of the Old 
South, in Boston; born August, 1688; graduated H. C. 1707; ordained September 
16, 1713; died June 27, 1769. He declined the appointment of President of the 
College, and Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, of Boston, was chosen, and entered on 
the duties of the office in July, 1725. 

2. This bloody battle took place on the margin of a pond in Fryeburg; the 
Indians are supposed to have numbered eighty, under Paugus and Wahwa, two 
noted chiefs, while Lovell's party contained but thirty-two; the engagement lasted 
nearly all day, and the leaders on both sides were killed. The English were taken 
in an ambuscade; Lovell and eight men were shot down by the first fire, and two 
others mortally wounded. Some wounded were left upon the field who were never 
afterwards heard of, and but eight soldiers and no officers returned to bear the 
distressing news of their defeat and loss, which cast a gloom over the whole 
community. A particular account of the expedition may be found in Belknap's 
History of New Hampshire, and a Discourse published by the Rev. Mr. Symmes, 
of Bradford, on the occasion. 

3. This Richmond was a small fort erected in 1719 or 20, on the Kennebec river 
in the present town of Richmond, ten miles below the mouth of Cobbisecoutee; 
this was the highest point on the Keimebec, which the English settlers had then 
reached. The fort was afterwards used as an establishment for Indian traffic, as 
well as garrison to keep possession of the country. It was finally dismantled m 
1754.— 2. Will. 97. 



44 smith's journal. 

22. Twenty-one Indians ran away in the night. 

23. Fourteen Indians taken again. 

24. The Commissioners returned to Boston, Avith two Penobscot 
Indians. 

August 2. The two Penobscot Sagamores in here, in Capt. 
Sanders, bound home. 

9. Capt Sanders put ashore the two Sagamores. * A cessation 
of arms appointed for forty days between us and the Penobscot 
Indians. 

10. Orders came for forces here to prepare for a march. 

Two gentlemen came in here bound to St. Georges, to treat with 
the Indians. 

September 16. News in town of the Indians killing five men at 
Fort Dummer, and five more at the eastward. 

20. Tlie forty days out that were appointed for a cessation of 
arms. 

21. I was invited to go up and preach at Nonvich, 

October 8. My father and brother came in from St. Georges 
without the Indians. The hostage and another Indian ran away. 

28. General Thanksgiving. 

December 13. Mr. Whalton brought the contribution for last 
Sabbath, £2 6s. 

[I^ the course of this year, Mr. Smith came twice from Boston, 
preached at Falmouth seventeen Sabbaths, viz : From June 27th to 
September 5th, and from November 14th to the end of the year. 
During which time he visited the people there and at Purpoodock ; 
rode to neighboring places and frequently diverted himself by 
gunning and fishing. In December, he attended the ordination of 

Fort Georges was situated on Georges river, in Tliomaston, near where is now tlie 
mansion house of the late Gen. Knox. 

The Commissioners to treat with the Indians were John Stoddard and John 
Wainwright. Stoddard was a member of the Council, Chief Justice of the Court 
of Common Pleas and Colonel of a regiment. A man of ability and integrity; he 
died in 1748, aged sixty-six. Wainwright was of Ipswich, Colonel, Clerk of the 
House, and a considerable man; he died 1739. 

1. Thomas Sanders, of Gloucester, in the naval service of the Province, 
whose son Thomas afterwards married Mr. Smith's daughter Lucy. 



smith's journal. 45 

Mr. Jeffries, ' at Welk ; preached there and spent about ten days 
there and in the vicinity.] 

1726. 

January 14. The forces dismissed. " 

24. Yesterday and to day very severe cold. The river froze over. 

31. Thus far has been a very smart close winter. 

February 28. Here (with this month) ends the winter. It has 
been all along a close and hard a winter as has been remembered. 
There has been good sledding all winter. Never one thaw. 

March 10. Mea natalis 24 : Destinav : Deis precaro. 

IS. There has been the best gunning here this winter than has 
been for some years past. 

22. Capt. Moody brought two Indians from North Yarmouth. 

23. The Indians killed two cattle upon their return at Winne- 
gance, * near Arowsick. 

26. It is observable that though the winter has been so very 
severe, there has not been any thing like a storm the whole time. 

27. We had news by an express from his Honor the Lieut. 
Governor, that the Penobscot Indians had denied several articles of 
the peace. ' 

29. Three persons drowned at Winter Harbor, in a schooner of 
Elder Sayward's. 

April 5. Three Penobscot Indians came here this evening. 

9. Twenty-six vessels now in the harbor, 

13. The General Court met and sat thirty-one days upon the 
Jesuit's Letter, which he in the name of the Indians, wrote to the 
Governor last month. They resolved to send them a further supply. 

1. Samuel Jefferds was the son of Simon Jefferds, and born in Salem, Mass., 
1703 ; was graduated at Harvard College, 1722. He died in the ministry in 
February, 1752, aged forty-eight, leaving a family, from which descendants are 
now living in Wells, Kennebunk and vicinity. 

2. A treaty was concluded at Boston, December 15, 1725 ; by one of the 
articles of which it was agreed that it should be ratified at Falmouth, in fllay, by 
all the Eastern tribes. 

3. William Dummer was Lieut. Governor and acting Governor from 1722, when 
Gov. Shuts left the administration, until July, 1728, when Gov. Burnet arrived in 
the Province. 

* Georgetown. 



46 smith's jouunal, 

21. Sanders came in Iroiu Boston with a further supply lor the 
Indians : for Richmond as well as Georges. 

26. This day the Committee acquainted me with the call of the 
people generally planting here. 

29. Preached over to Purpoodock. ' 

Jum 15. About this time the ratification . of the peace was 
proposed to be, but put off further by the Indians. 

26. Capt. Moody brought me £20 of the town's money. Mr. 
Walton brought me £10 12s. 3d. being what was gathered on twenty- 
seven Sabbaths. This evening sailed for Boston. 

29. Arrived at Cape Ann, after having put into Piscataqua river. 

July 13. This day returned from Boston. 

15. The New Hampshire gentlemen came here in the evening, 
and lie below. ^ 

17. {SuTiday.) Mr. ShurtlifT preached here A. M. => Mr. Fitch, 
P. M. The gentlemen all at meeting. In the morning the 
gentlemen came on shore and made considerable appearance with 
their drums and guns. The Governor guarded in pomp to meeting. 

1. Purpoodock was then connected with the First Parish, whose principal place 
of worship was upon the Neck, now Portland ; by an arraiigenienl with the 
jniiiister, he preached there every third Sabbath. 

It was usual to take a contribution every Sunday, which was a perquisite of the 
minister's, and was called the stranger's contribution. This amounted to a con- 
siderable sum in the summer when the number of people resorting to the place was 
lar<Te, as it was the present season. It seems that Mr. Smith received in this way 
on the 26th of June for twenty-seven Sabbaths, £10 12s. 3d. 

2. Lieut. Gov. Dummer with a majority of the Council of Massachusetts, John 
Wentworth Lieut. Gov. of New Hampshire, and Major Paul Mascarene, from 
Nova Scotia, with some principal men of their Provinces, confirmed the treaty on 
the part of the English; and Wenemovet, chief Sachem of the Penobscots, on the 
part of the Indians. The Lieut. Governor arrived July 16. The message referred 
to under date of July 23, was a request from the Penobscot tribe who remained at 
St. Georie, that the Governor would meet them at Pemaquid. The Governor 
declined, and invited them to Falmouth and sent a vessel to transport them. The 
Indiana took up their quarters on the Island at the mouth of the harbor, and 
attended the conference daily, except Sundays. The conference closed August 11. 

3. William ShurtlifT, H. C. 1707; minister at New Castle and Portsmouth, N. 
II.; died May, 1747, aged fifty-eight; born at Plymouth, Mass. 

Jabez Fitcii, II. C. 1694, son of James Fitch, of Norwich, Conn.; born 1672; 
settled hi Portsmouth, N. 11., 1725, and died November 22, 1746. 



smith's joui^nal. 47 

22. TliP gentlemen spent this week entirely idle, waiting for the 
Indians. 

23. The Indians came here from Penobscot on a message to the 
government, and were sent away in the afternoon. 

24. [Sunday.) I preached here A. M. Mr. Tappan P. M. ' 
Mr. Fitch baptized the children, twenty-two in all, besides a.nadult 
person. Mr. White preached ov^er to Purpoodock, A. M, 

The Lieut. Governor with the gentlemen, sailed up the bay ; 1 
was fishing with Mr. Tyng before the door. While the gentlemen 
are gone we enjoy ourselves. 

29. This morning the gentlemen returned from Arowsick. The 
Indians to the number of forty, all of the Penobscot tribe, came in 
here. In the afternoon the Congress opened. 

31. [Sunday.) Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Welstead preached here." 

August 1. There was a public dinner, at which I dined. 

2. Several days were spent in private treaties, to pave the Avay 
for the public ratifications. 

4. All private conferences were finished this day. 

5. The ratification of the peace was publicly done this day in the 
meeting house. 

6. Some afiairs relating to the ratification that were left unsettled 
yesterday, were this day finished, and all concluded with a public 
dinner. 

8. The New Hampshire gentlemen sailed. 

10. This week spent in interpreting to the Indians the journal of 
all their actions — and in fully settling some other matters. 

12. The governor and other gentlemen sailed this day for Boston. 
Capt. Franldin carried the Indians to St. Georges. Mr. Welstead 
stopped here. 

1. Probably Christopher Tappan, of Newbury; H. C. 1691; died July, 1747, 
aged 75. Mr. White was the Rev. John White, a connection of the old settlers at 
Purpoodock, of that name. He claimed his ancestor's title in 1749. The original 
settlers were Josiah and Nathaniel, brothers, under whom White claimed; they 
lived at Maiden Cove. Nathaniel was killed by the Indians. John graduated at 
H. C. 1698. Nathaniel left but two children, Mary and Dorcas, married to 
Nathaniel and Jolm Danford, of Newbury. Muiam, a daughter of Josiah, 
married Richard Suntay. 

2. Ebenezer Pemberton and William Welstead, both settled ministers in Boston. 
Welstead was a classmate of our townsman, Joshua Moody, 1716. 



48 smith's journal. 

Scplei7iher 7. N. N. E. storm brought into the harbor about forty 
large fishing vessels. 

17. Capt. Langdon came in here in a large ship. 

30. This month we have always great numbers of fishermen in 
here. 

[Several days of this month Mr. Smith appears to have spent in 
bodily exertion, both by land and water, visiting, dining, &;c., with 
Mr. Collier, Moody, Jarvis. &c.] 

October 9. Town meeting to day. They voted to build me a 
house. ^ 

27. There is a considerable number of people do\vn here, to look 
out for farms, designing to settle here. 

28. This day we had news that the Indians had broken out and 
taken a family in Kennebunk, viz : eight women and two children, 
one of the women big with child. Their names were Durrel and 
Baster. 

November 21. I sat out this afternoon for Boston. ~ 
26. Arrived in Boston, having rode in all one hundred and 
twenty-four miles. 

1. The house was accordingly built, on the north side of Congress street, 
looking directly through King, now India street, on which street the meeting house 
was then situated. The house was forty feet long and twenty wide; and sixteen 
feet stud. Here Mr. Smith lived until the destruction of the town in 1775, when 
the house was burnt. November 14, 1726, the town voted to give Mr. Smith, this 
house, on his settlement. 

March 19, 1726, the town allowed Major Moody ten shillings per week for 
the minister's board. 

March 22, the town adopted the following votes : Voted, unanimously, that 
Mr. Smith be desired to continue with us as our minister. Voted, also, that iif 
Mr. Smith pleases to continue in order to his settlement with us, that the town will 
give him £70 for his salary the first year, besides his board and the contributions 
of strangers, and to increase the same according to our ability, and as our circum- 
stances will allow, till he shall be provided with an honorable maintenance. 

^pril 18, it was Voted that a house lot be laid out to the minister in a conven- 
ient place. 

2. The journey was performed on horseback, the only mode of conveyance at 
that time, except by water or on foot. The route was across the ferry, near the 
foot of King street, then round by the shore of Cape Elizabeth to Alewive brook; 
then across by Great Pond to the mouth of Spurwink river, which was crossed by 
a ferry, and so following near the sea shore to the Piscataqua. This circuitous 
route was about twenty mile? further than the present road. 



smith's journal 49 

Decemher 7. I sat out for Casco. 

22. Lodged at Mr. Jefferds, Wells. 

24. These two days I spent wholly with Mr. Jefferds in his 
chamber. 

31. After some excursions to York, &c., sat out for Casco. 

[At the end of the journal for this year is " some account of the 
settling of the town of Falmouth, Casco Bay." The difficulty of 
reading the writing of Mr. Smith, by reason of the very fine letters 
in which all his journals are written, is on this account, rendered 
much greater, by the leaf in which it is written, having been wet and 
torn, and in several places the writing entirely rubbed out. The 
following is as much as I could pick out. It contains the greatest 
part, and though imperfect, I think proper to insert it in the form it 
is, rather than wholly to omit it.] 

In the year^ '17, a number of men,' about thirty, petitioned the 
General Court for this tract of land, in order to make a settlement 
of ; who granted their petition, excepting the former grants. 
Inhabitants most of the time between their being # -^ =^ the 
town filled but slowly. 

When I first came down here, which was the twenty-third of 
June, there were but about fifty-six families, such as they were, most 
of them very poor, by reason of the Indians that kept the people from 
their farms * * ^ and confined them to garrisons, and some 
that were soldiers, that had found wives on the place, and were mean 
animals ;" and I have been credibly informed that the men they 
engaged to come to them, were as bad as themselves, having a design 
of building up the town with any that came and oflered ; but the 
war coming on, purged the place of many of them, and in their room 
came others, and some very good * * #. This fall came down 

* This year, except the centuiial part of it, seems to have been left a blanl?. F. 

1. This petition was signed by thirty-six persons, the representatives principally 
of old settlers, and dated May 29, 1717. It includes the names of Mariner, 
Bowdoin, Royall, Ingersoll, Brackett and Felt. The petition and names of the 
signers may be seen in the appendix 1, to the History of Portland, 2d part. 

2. In July, 1716, Major Moody, in a petition to the General Court for leave to 
fortify his house, which stood on King street, represented that there were then on 
the Neck, "commonly called Old Casco," fifteen men as inhabitants, besides 
women and children. — H. of P. 2, 14. 

7 



60 smith's journal, 

I, Riggs, with his family, and about the same time J. SaAvyer, with 
his, both from Cape Ann; both very good sort of men, errors 
excepted.' When I came do\vn, the meeting house frame was only 
covered ; but this summer it was handsomely finished outside. Gov- 
ernor Wentworth giving the glass." 

1726. This spring came into town one Savage, and also one 
Stimson and his family, # ^ * whom the selectmen imme- 
diately warned out of town, as they did several others, just about the 
making of peace. 

This summer, (peace being conceded) there came from Cape Ann, 
one Davis, a pretty troublesome spark, with his family. ^ Also one 

1. Jeremiah Riggs : he came from Gloucester, Cape Ann, and was a tanner. 
In 1735, he bought the old John Ingersoll farm, near Stroudwater, where he lived, 
and where some of his descendants live at the present time. His children were 
Wheeler, Jeremiah, Joseph, Abigail, Hannah, Mary and Stephen. Abigail was 
the first born in Falmouth, which was May 18, 1726. There was a Jolni Sawyer 
here as early as 1719, when the town granted to him the privilege of the ferry on 
Purpoodock side of the river. Isaac, Jacob and Job Sawyer, were early inhabi- 
tants, and were all admitted to town privileges in 1728. When they severally 
came, we are not able to ascertain. Isaac died in 1772, aged 92. Then- descend- 
ants are very numerous in this town and vicinity. 

2. This meetmg house stood on the corner of King and Middle streets ; its 
interior arrangements for the pulpit, "and the seats below for the conveniency 
of the people's sitting," were not completed until 1728. The first meeting house 
in the town was built on the point where the Portland Company's works are 
erected: this point was called, down to the tune of the Revolution, "Meeting 
house Point. ' ' Its Indian name was Machigonne. That house was destroyed in 
the Indian war of 1690. 

September 5, 1722, the General Court granted j£40 for the new Meetuig house. 

3. Probably William Davis ; his wife's name was Patience; their son William 
died m January, 1727, and they had a daughter Sarah, born February 25, 1727, 
and Patience April, 1729, all in Falmouth. A lot granted to him was forfeited for 
not making improvements upon it. James and Samuel Davis were admitted 
inhabitants in December, 1727, on the payment of £10. — T. Rec. 

Thomas Haskell, the ancestor of most of the persons of the same name now 
resident here, came from Gloucester. He was born in 1689, and died February 
10, 1785, in the ninety-seventh year of his age. He had ten children, and at the 
time of his death seventy-nine grand children, and fifty -eight great grand children. 
Of his children born in Falmouth, were William, June 25, 1728; Sarah, November 
27, 1732; John, August 25, 1735 ; Anna, April 22, 1737. He was one of those 
who were embodied in the first church in this town on the settlement of Mr. Smith, 
in 1727; was one of the ConnniUee to lay out lands in 1732 and afterwards, and 



smith's journal. 51 

of his wife's brothers, no better than he — and a little after, another 
family who was also warned out of toAvn. Also one Haskell, a sober 
sort of a man, with his family. John Sawyer brought here to live. 

This fall came Isaac Savage and Mr. Pride, with their families ; 
also Mr. White's eldest son, who were sober and forehanded men ;' 
and many persons desiring to settle, and has an unspeakable * * ^ 

in a new settlement. Now Mr. B , son and his wife of 

Piscataway, proceeding to great Hog Island. 

This week we had a town meeting to consider of the petition of 
ten several likely men to be admitted inhabitants, and the matter 
was left to the selectmen. 

This month I reckoned up the families in town, and found there 
was sixty-four, such as they were, accounting a man and his 
wife a family. There are likewise thirteen or fourteen young men 
marriageable, that have land in the town and are inhabitants ; and 
above thirty-eight fighting men. 

1727. Came down here one * =^ * [something like Mor- 
reston] who bought James or John Ballard's place, which Darling 
■yvas * * ^ who moved away to Black Point. Last month, 
Mr. Sawyer and York came here and finished their grist mill,' 
which every way answered their expectation. The people, before 
this, sent their corn to B. to be ground. A saw mill was also built 
upon the same stream. Several of the inhabitants began to get logs 
^ ^ # # :^ ^^^ ^l^at ^jig i\^Q old saw mill that was Ingersols. 



was a very respectable and worthy inhabitant. He had a house lot granted hun 
in 1726, on Fore street. 

1. The Mr. Pride was probalily Joseph ; he had a son Joseph, born m 
Falmouth, April 12, 1728, who is probably the same that married Hannah Knight, 
in 1751. 

The White was probably John, a connection of the Rev. John White, of 
Gloucester, if not his son ; he had a daughter Lucy,, born here December 1, 1732; 
his wife's name was Jerusha. John and William White were admitted inhabitants 
April 22, 1728, paying £10 each. They were descendants, I think, of the old 
settler at Purpoodock, where they lived. William married Christian Simonton, 
1736. The sons of the Rev. John White were born iii Gloucester, as follows: 
John, 1704, William, 1709. There is therefore a doubt whether our settlers were 
his sons. 

2. This mill was built at Lawrence's Creek, in Cape Elizabeth, opposite Port- 
land. In 1722, the town granted the creek " to the men that undertake to set up 
a Come mill," and one hundred acres beside. 



52 smith's journal. 

Eight persons, several of tliem having families, came here and 
purchased a tract of land near Pond Cove,' of Sanniel Jordan, 
# # =^ with an ohligation * # of it * ^ to stand by 
one another in peace or war ; and the first thing they did, built a 
garrison for the good of the whole *****. 

One Keddin came here to build a ship here. 

One Woodbury and Skipper Doliver purchased a small tract of 
land of * * * * * and were both doA\Ti here. Woodbury, 
a man of great substance, built a liandsome house and a barn.^ 

Maj/ 3. The town admitted seven persons into the town as 
inhabitants, and came into a new method, viz: that every person 
admitted from that time, should pay £10. Mr. Pike,^ Webber, 
Woodward, Clark and * ^' * built a house and barn ^ ^ *. 

August 9. A sloop built before my door was launched to-day. 

15. The mast ship that loaded here sailed to-day. 

17, The town admitted twenty-three persons into the town, they 
paying the £10.* 

1. Pond Cove is iii Cape Elizabeth near the southern extremity of the Cape, so 
named from its lying at the outlet of the Great Pond. The Reddm spoken of m 
the next paragra^ih was Thomas, probably ; he was son of the second wife 
of Richard Babson, of Gloucester, who also came here. I have no further infor- 
mation respecting him; his residence was probably only temporary to build a ship. 

2. Joshua Woodbury and John Dolover. Woodbury came from Beverly, 
Mass., and established himself at Simonton's cove in Cape Elizabeth. He was 
admitted an mhabitant Dec. 11, 1727. He died hi 1749, leaving a widow, Sarah, 
and children Joshua, Peter, John, Mary, married to Jona. Lovitt, Mehitable, wife 
of Jolui Robinson, Sarah, wife of Daniel Sawyer, and Ann. He retamed his farm 
in Beverly at the time of his death — Capt. Wm. Woodbury of this city is a descend- 
ant. Dolover and Woodliury had house lots granted to them by the town March 8, 
1728, adjoining each other. 

3. Lt. Solomon Pike, Richard Webber, Eben. Woodward and John or George 
Clark. Pike did not remain here; in 1738 he conveyed all his grants to Phinehas 
Jones and is then styled of Portsmouth. Samuel Webber lived here before the 
destruction of the town by the Indians, and died in York 1716. INIichael Webber 
lived here in 1703, when his wife was killed by the Indians ; whether Richard was 
connected with them or not I do not know. Woodward had a grant of a house lot 
on the corner of Exchange and Fore Streets; and both John and George Clark had 
house lots granted them on the Neck. 

4. The condhion of their admission was, that they pay £10, and settle on their 
lots in twelve months and not alienate them until they have lived on them seven 
years. There are but sixteen persons mentioned in the record, viz : Robert 



SMITH S JOURNAL. Oo 

September 18. The town admitted five persons into the town. 
Among others, the town thought it their wisdom to admit a number 
of gentlemen that stand their friends, viz : Mr. Shove, Capt. Walton, 
Mr. Powell and Lewis. Some of them the town adimitted, are 
substantial men — and Capt. Wheelwright.' 

People constantly flocking down here to petition for lots. 

[A memorandum is made in another part of this year's journal ; 
but so illegible as not to be fully understood. All I can gather from 
it is, as I conceive of it, that this was a township a number of years 
before, but taken by Waudghsgad, for the French and Indians — and 
that " at this time the town book was either burnt or carried into 
Canada, which was an unspeakable loss," producing disputes between 
the old and new proprietors. Some of whom had, or required lands 
" over and over again.'"] 

I have thought it best from the connection of the subject to transfer 
to this place some extracts from the church records made by Mr. 
Smith, which Mr. Freeman had thrown into the second part of this 
work. 

Bayley, James Buxton, Josejih Cobb, Thomas Frank, Epliraim Foster, Thomas 
Moseley, Jer. Moulton, Daniel Jackson, Samuel Stone, Samuel Staples, Edward 
Shove, Enoch Wiswall, Col. Thomas Westbrook, James Webster, James Wimoiid 
(Wyman) and Samuel Wheelright. Most of these became permanent settlers — 
Wheelright and jMoulton never settled here. Moulton had a house lot at Clark's 
point. 

1. Ensign Robert Pierce, John Powell and Job Lewis are all that are mentioned 
in the records as admitted that day. They all had house lots on the Neck granted 
to them, on condition of settlement, &c. Pierce's was forfeited in 1729, probably 
for failure to perform the conditions. John Powell was a merchant in Boston, and 
one of the Committee appointed in 1722 for the settlement of North Yarmouth. He 
finally moved to that place and died there 1742. He was father of Jeremiah Powell, 
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for this County from 1763 to 1781. 

Job Lewis also became a very respectable inhabitant of North Yarmouth, where 
he died. 

Peter Walton : he received a grant of a house lot in 1720, was town clerk in 
1726 and had the title of Mr. applied to him. He was a joiner, and worked on the 
meeting house. He died March 28, 1733, aged 42, without issue. His widow 
Mary married Joseph Pitman a fisherman of Falmouth. 

2. This year, June 1, 1727, Capt. Dominicus Jordan and Samuel Cobb were 
chosen by the inhabitants to go to York to procure copies of records relating 1o 
Falmouth. There are no records of the town existing prior to the resettlement in 
1718. 



54 smith's journal. 

The follmving is taken from the Chirch Booh of Records, in the hand.- 
uniting of the Rev. Mr. Smith. 
*' Anno 1716, one Ingersol built an hut on Falmouth Neck, where 
he lived alone some time, and was thence called Governor Ingersol. 
He was afterwards drowned at Presumpscot with one Millet by the 
damming of the ice — raising an head of water in the night while 
they were asleep.* New Casco fort being demoHshed by order of 

1. Ingersol!. This I think was Elisha, the eldest son of John Ingersoll, who was 
a Uir<ie land holder here before the Indian wars, in which he was driven off and 
took up his residence in Kittery, where he died in 1716 at an advanced age, leaving 
a widow, Deborah, 71 years old, and children, Elisha, Nathaniel, John, Epiiraim, 
Deborah born 1668 married to Benjamin Larrabee, Mary, Rachel married to John 
Chapman, and Abigail. John owned the farm at Stoudvvater, part of which is now 
owned by Ilezekiah Winslovv and Jones, whicli he conveyed in 1715 to Elisha and 
his son in law John Chapman, who moved to Falmouth. Elisha had a grant of three 
acres on the Neck in 1720 — he was a resident here in 1718, and was one of the 
petitioners for the incorporation of the town ; he died previous to November 20, 
1729, at which time his daughters Mary Martin, Elizabeth and Deborah all of 
Falmouth conveyed to Samuel Waldo of Boston and Thomas Westbrook of Ports- 
mouth all their interest in their father's and their grand father John Ingersoll's 
estate. This John Ingersoll, I have no doubt was the grandson of Richard Ingersoll 
who was sent over by the Massachusetts Company in London to Salem in June 
1629 •, a Bedfordshire num. His eldest son was John, whose son John above 
mentioned, by his wife Judith was born Sept. 1644, and was consequently 72 at the 
lime of his death. — Essex Rec. John was settled here previous to 1675, when he 
purchased the above farm of George Munjoy. Beside Elisha, there was here in 
1718 and also a petitioner, Daniel Ingersoll, son of George, an old settler, who was 
son of Lt. George, born in 1618 and who I suppose to be a son of the 1st Richard. 
Daniel received from his father Oct. 10, 1717, who was then a shipwright in Boston, 
a conveyance of land in Falmouth and probably moved here. He built a house on 
his father's old house lot opposite the Custom House in Fore Street, which the town 
confirmed to him in 1721. This lot he sold to Moses Pearson in 1730, previous to 
which he had moved to Boston. He was a shipwright. 

There were still other Ingersolls here near that tiine, viz. George and Catharine 
his wife, who in 1719 conveyed land in Scarborough, describing themselves as of 
Falmouth, and Benjamin, son of Joseph, who lived on the Neck near where Cory's 
furniture warehouse is m Exchange Street previous to the destruction of the town in 
1690. Benjamin came to Falmouth and occupied his father's lot, erected a house 
upon it and purchased the adjoining lot extending to Middle Street — and sold the 
whole being four acres to Phinehas Jones in 1739 for £480, bounded east by 
Exchange Street, south by Fore Street, north by Middle Street, and extenduig west 
until four acres were completed, including the house and barn and the flats fronting 
the lot. He then lived in North Yarmoulh, havuig moved there previous to 1735. 



smith's journal. 55 

government a few months after this, viz: 1717, Major Moody who 
had hecn the commanding officer, with Capt. Larrahee who had heeu 
a sergeant, moved their famihes down to the Neck, and huilt them 
houses/ About this time 1715, Mr. Skillin" and Bracket settled on 
their father's old farms at Back Cove. Now came also Capt. CoUer 
and built a house, as did one Proctor, Doughty, Rounds, Mills, Hall, 

In 1676, George Ingersoll and family, John Ingersoll and George Ingersoll, .Tr., 
with several others, driven from their residences here, were admitted inhabitants of 
Salem, during the Indian wars. " These persons," the record says, " being driven 
from their habitations by the barbarous heathen, are admitted as inhabitants into the 
town, they, most of them, informing they have provisions for themselves and families 
one year." 

1. The fort was demolished in 1716 ; it stood on a pomt a little east of Presump- 
scot river and nearly opposite the islands called the " Two Brothers,^' on the farm 
now owned by Samuel Moody a descendant of Major Samuel Moody who was in 
command of the fort at the time it was demolished. Capt. Larrabee was Benjamin; 
he built his house on a lot at the corner of Middle and School Streets which was 
granted to him by the town, in 1721, and which he sold to John Oulton, Esq., 
of Marblehead in 1729. He was born in 1666 and his wife Deborah, daughter of 
John Ingersoll in 1668. His father was one of the early settlers in North Yarmouth, 
where he was killed by the Indians in the war of 1689. His descendants are 
numerous among us. He died iii 1734, aged 67. His son Benjamin born 1700, 
married Amy Pride of Falmouth, by whom he had Elizabeth 1732, Benjamin 1735, 
Mary 1737, John, Abigail 1747, Anna 17.51, married David Ross, Sarah and 
William. He died 1784. His son Benjamin died 1809. Elizabeth married John 
Webb and died 1827, aged 9.5. The last Benjamin married Sarah, a daughter of 
Joshua Brackett, and received from Bracket! the large tract of land from Congress 
Street to Back Cove, where Casco and Hanover Streets are : a portion of which is 
still in his family. 

2. Benjamin Skillings, son of Thomas, who purchased the land of George 
Cleaves m 1658 : he came from Salem, but did not remain here. In Sept. 1719 we 
find him a resident of Marblehead ; at which time he conveyed to John Wass of 
Falmouth his interest in the Back Cove farm. He owned but half this farm, his 
brother Joseph the other half, having been given to them by their father. Benjamin 
was chosen Selectman by the newly mcorporated town in 1718. There were other 
branches of the family here, and also the children of John Skillings, an old settler, 
whose descendants remain among us. The Brackett, was Zachariah, son of 
Anthony by his second marriage, he returned from Hampton where his mother, 
Susannah, daughter of Abraham Drake, originated. The farm is the one now 
owned and occupied by James Deering, and the house which Brackett built stood 
at the junction of the roads beyond Mr. Deering's house. He sold his form about 
1740 to Joseph Noyes and moved to Ipswich, where he died after 1751. Further 
particulars of these (liinilies may be found in the history of Portland. 



5U SIMITH S JOURNAL. 

two Scales' (brothors), father Thomcs, Wass, (twelve in all) ami John 
Barber and father Gustian (who died June 1718.') 

1. Richard Collier came from Plymouth Colony ; he had a grant of a house lot 
on the beach east of King Street and built his house there ; he died without issue 
Jan. 17, 1732, aged 55 ; having bequeathed his property to his widow Mary ; she 
afterwards, in 1735, married Robert Dabney of North Yarmouth. 

Samuel Proctor, came from Lynn between Sept. 1717 and Nov. 1719; He married 
Sarah, a daughter of Anthony Brackett, by whom he had John 1715, Benjamin 
1717, both born in Lynn, Samuel 1719, Sarah 1723, William 1724, Keziah 1727 
and Kerenhappuck 1729. He built his house on Fore Street, between Lime and 
Silver Streets, and owned the land from Middle Street to low water mark — and part 
of which remains in the hands of Mr. Warren and Mrs. Wyer his great grand- 
children, tlij'ougb Benjamin. He was son of John Proctor who was executed for 
witchcraft at Salem in 1692 ; was born jn 1680 and died at Portland March 16, 
1765, aged 85. His father and mother sustamed excellent characters both in 
Ipswich and Danvers where they had lived previous to the witchcraft delusion. 
The one story house which Benjamin, the son of Samuel, built, and in which lie 
died in 1781, is still standing on his father's old lot, and is one of the two oldest 
houses in town. 

Doughty, James, came here in 1716 ; was a shoe maker; born about 1680. He 
built his house on Middle street, near where Exchange street enters it. 

Rounds, JMark, was a gun smith, his will is dated 1720, and proved February, 
1729. He left a widow, Sarah and three sons, Joseph, George and Samuel. 

Mills, James, came from Lynn and built the second or third house in town on the 
lot opposite the Second Parish meeting house, afterwards owned by Judge Freeman. 
He had by his wife Deborah, Deborah, born at Lynn, Nov. 21, 1714; Patience, at 
Lynn, January 26, 1716, and Lucretia at Falmouth, June 23, 1719. He also had a 
son John who lived in Groton, in 1734. Mills died in 1720 or early in 1721, and 
his widow married Lt. Thomas Cummins, by whom she had two children, Thomas 
and William, and who died March, 1724; and second, John Donnivan, of Scar- 
borough. 

Hall, Ebenezer, had a house lot on Middle street, next east of Doughty's. 
There was a son of the same name; they both moved to the east. The Halls now 
residing here, are from another branch, whose name was Hate Evil, who died in 
Falmouth, 1797, aged ninety. 

Scales, Matthew and William. The family from which these two persons 
descended, settled originally in Rowley, Mass. Wm. Scales, probably their 
ancestor, was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640. William was chosen Representa- 
tiv(! from Falmouth, in 1719. Their father owned lands in North Yarmouth, and 
they both went there to live, in 1720; William built a house there on a point upon 
the bay, where his eldest son Thomas was Iinrn in 1721, who was the first male 
child born in North Yarmouth. They were both killed by the Indians at their own 
bouse in ,\pril, 1725. ^\"illiam had seven children, viz: Thomas, born 1721, who 
married Elizabelh Richmond, of Dighton, Mass., and bad six sons and two daugh- 



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Samel Cobb came here in 1717, when there was only one house 
on Purpoodock side of the water, just built and inhabited by one 

ters; he died in 1786. James went to Georgia and died there. Susannah, married 
to James Buxton, of Falmoutli; Hannah married to Jedediah Southworth, of North 
Yarmouth, and Mary married to Edward King, of North Yarmouth. Wm. Scales 
H. C. 1771, was a grandson probably of Wm.; he became insane, and died at the 
house of his sister, at Dresdren, about 1807. 

Thomes, Thomas, built ui Clay Cove: his descendants are numerous in this town 
and vicinity. Joseph and Jolm had families here in 1729. 

VVass, Jolm, married Anne, a daughter of Richard Wilmot, from whom Wilmot 
street derives its name, near which on Congress street he had his house. The 
names of both Wilmot and Wass, have been long extmet among us. Wass sold 
his grant to Isaac Sawyer, in 1726, and probably moved away. 

Barbour, John, father and son of the same name, were of Scotch descent, but 
came here from Ireland.. The father was drowned in January, 1719. 

Mr. Smith adds the following facts, omitted by Mr. Freeman, viz: " In 1718, 
old father John Barbour, father of Jolm who came here 1717, came with his family, 
viz : James and widow Gibbs with their son Andrew, five years old, and daughter 
Mary, ten years, married Ingram and Fulton. He was drowned the January 
following." 

They came here from York. I suppose the explanation m regard to Mary is, that 
she married first Ingraham, probably at York, as persons of that name lived there, 
afterwards, Fuhon; I find in our records the intention of marriage between James 
Fulton and Mary Ingraham, February 17, 1737. 

The son John had a grant of the lot on Middle street, west of Exchange street, a 
part of which is still in the family; here he lived. He had children; Adam, 1719; 
Mary, 1722; Ann, 1725; Hannah, 1728. Hugh Barbour, a son of the first John, 
married m 1736, Mary, daughter of Jos. Bean, who was born bi Falmouth, 1710, 
lier father being then a soldier and Indian interpreter at the Fort. They came also 
from York. Hugh Barbour lived on a farm about four miles from the Neck ; his 
son Joseph Bean, was a joiner; he lived on the grant in Middle street, opposite 
where the Canal Bank now is. He was killed by a fall from a building on wliich 
he was at work, m 1795, aged fifty-eight. His only son Joseph B., now living in 
Gorham, was born in 1776; was many years a respectable merchant in Portland. 
He married first, Lucy Potter, of Kensington, N. H., who died in 1818, aged forty- 
one ;■ second, Judith Stevens, who died April 18, 1842, aged sixty-two ; tliird, m 
1849, the widow of Eben'r Preble, of Gorham, whose maiden name was Grace, of 
Salem. He has but one child surviving, a daughter of his second wife. 

Hugh Barbour also left three daughters, viz: Anne, Hannah and Mary. Anne 
and Hannah married Mark Walton, the former m 1796, the latter m 1800, and are 
both dead, leaving issue. Walton survives; he came in 1784, from the Isle of 
Shoals, a grandson of Rev. Mr. Tuck, of the church there, and born 1770. Mary 
married Capt. Andrew Scott, an able and enterprising shipmaster, who are both 
dead, leaving one son Andrew, and two daughters JMary and Elizabeth, one married 

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58 smith's journal. 

Dootor Winslow.* In 1718, said Cobb moved his family to Falmouth 
Neck when there were fourteen families there (including his.) This 
year Falmouth was anew incorporated a township by the General 
Court, and the tract of land granted to some of the ancient proprie- 
tors, together with others who signed with them in a petition for it. 

N. B. The General Court was ignorant of its being formerly 
granted to the old settlers who were broken up and driven away when 
the town and fort were destroyed by the French and Indians, and 
hence ensued infinite confusion and quarrels between these new and 
old proprietors ^ ; the former not allowing the latter any title nor those 

to Nathaniel Hatch, Esq., formerly of Bangor, the other to Robert Boyd, of this 
city, all of whom are living and have issue. 

Gustin, John, probably a Frenchman who came here after the first Indian war, 
and whose name became converted from Augustine Jean to plain English, John 
Gustin. See Hist, of Port. 1st part, p 210. He returned here from Lynn, on the 
resettlement, and died 1719; his will is dated or proved July 3, of that year. He 
bequeathed his dwelling house in Falmouth to his wife Elizabeth; his children were 
Samuel, John, Ebenezer, Thomas, David, Sarah and Abigail. His descendants 
still remain here. 

Doughty, Rounds, Mills, Hall, the Scales, Wass, Barbour, Jr. and Gustin, Jr., 
were soldiers under Major Moody, and on the dismantling the fort established 
themselves here. 

1. Samuel Cobb came from IMiddleborough, IMass.; he was many years deacon 
of the first church, and died in 1766; his wife Abigail died in September of the 
same year, aged eighty. Their children were Chipman, Ebenezer, Samuel, Peter, 
born in Falmouth, 1720; James born 1723, Hope married B. Winslow, 1738, 
and Hannah married, first, John Svvett, 1736; second, Zerubabel Hunnewell, 1754. 
All their sons left children, and their descendants are numerous. He was an active 
and useful citizen, and prominent in the affairs of the town; was town Clerk in 
1720, Treasurer in 1721, and Selectman several years. Jonathan, Ebenezer and 
Joseph, who also settled here, were his brothers. Ebenezer died in 1721, aged 
thirty-tlu'ee. 

The Dr. Winslow referred to, moved to North Yarmouth soon after this; his name 
was Gilbert, and in 1720, we find him engaged there erectmg a mill. His son 
Benjamin, born in North Yarmouth, was living there in 1826, aged eighty-six. 

2. The soldiers who had established themselves on the Neck after the fort at 
New Casco was dismantled, and other persons who had joined them and taken up 
land without title, or under grants from the town, were called New Proprietors, the 
survivors of the former settlements, their heirs and assigns, were called Old 
Proprietors. The contest between the two parties raged with unmitigated severity 
several years, until the right of the Old Proprietors was established in a suit brought 
by Samuel Moody, Edmund Mountfort and others, against Joseph Bailey and Philip 
Ilodgkms, for possession of lots on Muujoy's hill, which they occupied under grants 



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others that had purchased farms of Sir Ferdinango Gorges' agent, till 
all was settled in a course of law. 

Anno 1722, in the latter end of July a war broke out with the 
Indians, which continued three years, and kept back the growth of 
the settlement. 

In the year 1725, in June (the war ending the summer), I [Thomas 
Smith] came here and found one Mr. Peirpont ' (who was Chaplain to 

from the town, in which the new proprietors had a controlHng voice. This action 
was commenced in 1729, and finally determined in the Supreme Court, May term, 
1731. In this action the original title to the tract of land now called Munjoy's 
hill, was examined and discussed, and the right of the town to grant land owned 
and claimed by former settlers carefully considered; and the just conclusion reached, 
that the ancient title could not be disturbed. It was proved that the whole tract 
which constitutes Portland, was originally conveyed by its Proprietor under the 
Crown to George Cleevcs and Richard Tucker, the first settlers ; afterwards 
confirmed to them by Sir Alexander Rigby, the rival clamiant under the Republican 
government — that Cleeves and Tucker parcelled out the tract to various mdividuals, 
who occupied it ; among others the portion east of Clay Cove was sold and 
conveyed in 1659 to John Phillips, of Boston ; the original deed is now in my 
possession — that Phillips' only child, Mary, married George Munjoy, who built 
upon and improved the tract and died in possession of it, leaving several children — 
that said Mary who afterwards married Robert Lawrence, received a confirmation of 
the title from the government of Massachusetts in 1681, and died seized of it; her 
husband having Ijuilt a stone house upon it, which was destroyed hi 1690, by the 
Indians — that her children conveyed to the Plaintiffs in the suit. Judgment was 
rendered for the Plaintiffs, and it has ever since been held under that title. 

This settled the controversy between the old and new Proprietors on the general 
question of right; but numerous suits were afterwards instituted, which turned on 
subordinate points, for lots in difi^erent parts of the town. 

The settlement of this important question led at once to a new system of 
procedure; the old and new Proprietors entered into an amicable arrangement, by 
which the rights of the old settlers were recognized and respected, and it was agreed 
that all who had entered upon lands of the old proprietors should remove, and take 
grants on unappropriated land. This agreement was entered into in 1732. 

1. Jonathan Pierpont, probably the graduate of Harvard, 1714. Mr. Harris, 
the learned Librarian of H. C. has furnished me with some particulars of Mr. Pier- 
pont; by which it appears that he was the oldest son of the Rev. Jonathan and 
Elizabeth (Angler) Pierpont, of Reading, Mass. ; that he was born in that place 
September 14, 1695, and graduated at H. C. 1714. He " was Chaplain and 
Surgeon at Fort Richmond (on the Kennebec) in 1739." He afterwards was living 
at Byfield, Mass., with Margaret, his wife, where he died in 1758," without issue. 
His widow administered on his estate. 
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the army, whose head quarters were on this Neck) preaching to the 
people. There was then forty-five families in the whole town, viz : 
twenty-seven upon the Neck, one at New Casco, and seventeen at 
Purpoodock and Spurwink, most of them poor, and some of them 
miserably so. They had four or five years before erected a meeting 
house, which they had only covered, and the floor of it contained the 
people, with the fishermen and soldiers and other strangers that used 
to frequent the place much. The people of Purpoodock had also a 
log house on the Point, which they built partly for a garrison to the 
families on the Point, and partly for a meeting house in which the 
whole town assembled every third Sabbath. 

March 8, 1726-7. A Church was gathered and I (Thomas Smith) 
was ordained Pastor. ' 

1727. 

Januarij 2. I got home to-day ; found all things well ; the people 
glad to see me. 

seUled in Ipswich, Mass., prior to 1640. His son Robert settled in the ministry at 
Roxbury, and married Sarah, a daughter of Deacon Thomas Lynde, of Charles- 
town, by whom he had the Rev. Jonathan, settled at Reading. John, another son 
of the first James, and elder brother of Robert, was father of James, born 1661, 
H. C. 1681, who settled in the ministry at New Haven, Conn., where he died 1714. 
His great grandson, the Rev. John Pierpont, late of Hollis street Church, Boston, 
now of Troy, N. Y., informs me, that James, of New Haven, is the ancestor of all 
of the name in Connecticut, New York and Vermont. 

1. The church consisted of Thomas Smith, Isaac Sawyer, Tliomas Haskell, John 
Barbour, Robert Means, Samuel Cobb, John Armstrong, Wm. Gyles, and Wm. 
Jameson. Barbour, Means, Armstrong, and I thuik Gyles or Jeals, and Jameson or 
Jamison, were a portion of the Irish immigrants that came over in 1718, and passed 
the winter here in very distressed circumstances, so as to be assisted by government. 
The colony subsequently established itself at Londonderry. The descendants of 
the above three who remained here, are still among us, as are also those of some 
other of the Company. Armstrong went to Purpoodock, Means to Stroudvvater 
after residing a few years at Purpoodock; he married Armstrong's daughter, who 
lived until she was about one hundred years old. Five vessels were chartered by 
Robert Temple in 1717 and 1718, to transport fomilies from Ireland, to occupy and 
improve lands purchased by him about Merry Meeting Bay, on the Kennebec. On 
this subject Temple himself observes in a letter dated Charlestown, April 17, 1753, 
" In consequence of which several hundred people were landed in Kennebeck river, 
some of which or their descendants are inhabitants there to this day; but the greatest 
part removed to Pennsylvania, and a considerable part to Londonderry, for fear of 
the Indians." 

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3. I was this evening at a notable supper at Mr. Whalton's with 
about nineteen of the neighbors. 

[It seems then that large parties are nothing new.] 

10. Separated this day for fasting and prayer. * 

23. Town meeting to-day. 'They passed several votes in my 
favor, viz : To find me my wood ; to clear with me every six months ; 

* So much of this Journal as is printed in italics, was origuially written in private 
characters. F. 

1. The votes of the town referred to were as follows: 

" For Mr. Smith's encouragement, Voted, That the town will supply him with 
fire wood. 2. Pay his salary every six months. 3. That the lot between Thomas 
Thomes' and Samuel Cobb's, being No. 15, be given him on his settlement, for his 
house lot. 4. That the town will clear and fence the three acre lot given 
Mr. Smith, and also the three acre lot adjoming, given for the ministry, to be fit for 
his improvement. 5. The town accept Mr. Smith's answer to settle with them with 
all thankfulness, being universally satisfied therewithall. A Committee was 
chosen to communicate it to him and take his advice about ordination, &c. 
6. Voted, That the second Wednesday or Thursday, being the 8th or 9th day of 
March next, be appointed and set apart for Mr. T. Smith's ordination among us, 
and that Major Moody, Mr. Peter Walton and Mr. Thomas Haskell, be a 
Committee to write to the several churches in the county, to aflbrd their assistance 
in that great work, by their ministers and messengers. 7. That ministers and 
messengers meet at Major Moody's, as a council. 8. Major Moody desii-ed to enter- 
tain the ministers and messengers, upon ordination day, the charge to be defrayed 
by the town. • 

The three acre house lot above referred to, was on Congress, at the head of King, 
now India street, on which the house was built, which he continued to occupy until 
its destruction m the conflagration of 1775. 

Mr. Smith's answer, which was received with so much thankfulness, was as 
follows : having been communicated on the day of the town meeting. 

" Falmouth, Jan. 22, 1726—7. 
Gentlemen: Sometime since, as a Committee of this town, you acquainted 
me with the choice the inhabitants had made of me to settle among them as then- 
minister. Since which, I have had tune to take the great afiair into the most 
deliberate and serious consideration, and after solemn address to Heaven for counsel 
and direction, and the best advice of my friends, am determined to accept of this 
call and invitation, and do accordmgly with the most humble reliance on free 
grace, devote myself to the service of Christ in the ministry of the gospel among 
them, depending on such a suitable and honorable provision for my support and 
nfamtenance, as by their free and generous proposals they have left no room to 
doubt of. 

To Major Samuel Moody, Esq., and THOMAS SMITH. 

Mr. Benj. York, to be communicated." 



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to give me three acres of land for my house and lot ; and to clear the 
three acre lot. Yesterday wrote to Mr. Thatcher for my dismission. ' 

29. {Sunday.) Not a vessel in the harbor, nor one stranger at 
meeting ; but as many of our own people as ever I saw. 

30. To-day the people met and cut the timber for my house, and 
drew part of it to the spot. 

Fehruarij 1. Our letters were sent to the Churches for their 
assistance at the intended ordination. 

6. My father came here in Young Sanders, from Boston ; spent 
the evening with us, and went on board and sailed. 

11. A very cold day indeed, this. 

13. The river froze over this morning ; broke away P. M. 

29. Town meeting to-day to settle things about entertaining the 
ministers, and about building my house. 



1. Peter Thacher, Pastor of the New North Church, in Boston ; he was 
installed 1723 and died 1739. The answerto Mr. Smith's letter is given in connec- 
tion with the biographical notice. The following letter from Mr. Tliacher is in reply 
to an application for advice, and probably refers to the baptism of a negro child born 
of a servant of Major Bloody's : 

"Boston, April 19, 1727. 
Dear Sir : Yours of April 10, is now before ine ; we are all sick with the 
epidemical cold, and I Ilav'nt time to be Particular. I receive kindly your expres- 
sions of respect to me, and would be glad to give you all Possible Assistance. But 
in the matters mentioned in yours. Its not Proper for me but your own Association 
to be your Casuists. In General Let it serve for a standing maxim as it is safe and 
just, to take the consent of your church in all cases that are capable of it and require 
it at all. And where you are at a loss. Let your Brethren and Fathers of the 
Association be consulted. Do as little of importance as may be done. As to my 
private thoughts, I would have you use with discretion. I think to bring the 
Persons to a free, willing. Public confession to be safest and best for the advance- 
ment of religion and for them and you. The Confession must be Public. I am at 
no Loss as to the Negro child, could freely Do it myself ; but there are otherwise 
minded. And you must consult your own Peace in church and take the consent of 
your church, and if Done, the master must Solemnly and Publicly promise to bring 
it up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord when he Offers it To Baptism. 
Its my advice to go to your Association and be governed by them in ye mentioned. 
O Be much in prayer — Dilligent in your studys and Labors, and get the Experience 
of your Preaching into your own soul. Your aunts give their love. We have no 
Mulberry trees come up; when they do you'l be Reniembred. We have a Parrot 
your Aunt would present you, Let her know whether it be acceptable. 

Yours, 

PETER THACHER." 



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March 6. Set apart this day far fasting and prajjer. 
8. This day I was ordained Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of 
the Church. Mr. Moody ' made the first prayer ; Mr. Wise prayed 

1. Rev. Samuel Moody, of York, H. C. 1697; ordained 1700; died 1747, aged 
seventy-two. 

Rev. Jeremiah Wise, of Berwick, H. C. 1700; ordained 1707; died 1756. 

Rev. John Newmarch, of Kittery, H. C. 1690; ordained 1714; died 1754. 

Rev. John Rogers, of Second Parish in Kittery, now Elliot, H. C. 1711 ; 
ordained 1721; died 1773. 

These with Rev. Samuel Jefferds who was ordained at Wells, in 1725, were the 
only settled ministers in Maine, when Mr. Smith was ordauied. The whole popu- 
lation of the State did not probably exceed three thousand five hundred. 

Mr. Smith makes the followbg entry which is the first, in the Church Records, 
on this interesting occasion : 

" Falmouth, March 8, 1726 — 7. This day the Church was gathered m this 
place and Thomas Smith ordained Pastor: present and assisting at the solemnity, 
were the Pastors and Delegates of the Church at Wells, the Church at Berwick and 
the two Churches at Kittery." 

After mentioning the exercises as in the text, he adds: "The whole affair was 
carried on and finished much to the satisfaction and joy of every one concerned. 
Thanks to God. 

We are the first Church that ever was settled to the eastward of Wells : may 
the gates of hell be never able to prevail against us. Amen." 

The following is the Church Covenant then entered into : 

" The Church Covenant as consented to and signed by the several bretliren 
when the Church was gathered. 

We whose names are underwritten, sensibly acknowledging our own unworthiness 
to be in, and inability to keep covenant with God as we ought, yet apprehending 
ourselves called of God to keep ourselves into a relation of Church communion, and 
to seek the settlement of the ordinances of Christ according to Gospel institution 
among us, abjuring all confidence in ourselves and relying upon Free Grace for aid 
and assistance, Profess as follows: 

We declare our serious belief of the Christian Religion as ^contained in the 
Sacred Scriptures, and with such a view thereof as the confession of faith in our 
churches has exhibited, heartily resolving to conform our lives to the Rules of that 
Holy Religion as long as we live in the world. 

We do accordingly professedly aclvnowledge ourselves bound to the Fear and 
Service of the only True God (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) and avouch him this 
day, to be Our God, Our, Father, Our Saviour, Our Sanctifier and Leader, and 
receive him as our portion forever. We give up ourselves to the blessed Jesus (who 
is the Lord Jehovah, the High Priest, Prophet and King of his Church) under 
whose conduct, we submit ourselves, and on whom alone we wait for grace and 
glory, and to whom we declare ourselves bound in an everlasting covenant, never to 
be forgotten. 



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and gave the right hand of fellowship; Mr. Ncwmarch gave the 
Charge, and Mr. Rogers closed with prayer. 

We desire and intend, and with dependence on his promises and powerful grace, 
we engage to walk together as a Church of our Lord Jesus Christ m the Faith and 
order of the Gospel, so far as God hath or shall reveal the same to us, and do 
accordingly, solemnly give up ourselves to one another as fellow members of one 
body for mutual edification, and promise to submit ourselves to all the holy adminis- 
trations appointed by him, who is Head and Lawgiver of his Church dispensed 
according to the Rules of the Gospel ; conscientiously attending the public worship 
of God, the sacraments of the New Testament, the discipline of his kingdom and 
all his Holy institutions in conmiunion with one another, accepting and embracing 
counsels and reproofs with all humbleness and thankfulness, and watchfully avoiding 
all sinful stumbling blocks and contentions and uneasinesses as becomes a society, 
whom we hope the Lord has bound up together in a bundle of life. 

We do likewise aclcnowledge our olTspring to be included with us in the Gospel 
Covenant and to stand in covenant relation according to Gospel rules, and blessuig 
God for such privilege, do promise as he shall enable us, to bring them up in the 
nurture and admonition of the Lord. 

Furthermore, that we are under indispensable obligations at all times to be careful 
to procure the settlement and continuance of Church otHcers among us according to 
the appointment of Jesus Christ the Chief Shepherd of his flock for the perfecting of 
the saints, for the work of the nmiistry, for the edifying of the body of Clu-ist; and 
that we are equally obliged to be careful and Faithful for their mamtenance, 
encouragement and comfort, particularly to highly honor and love those that may 
labor in word and doctrine among us for the word's sake. In the whole, conscien- 
tiously discharging our duty to them and ever carrying it as becomes saints. 

Finally, we promise to preserve communion with the Church of Christ for giving 
and receivmg mutual counsel and assistance, in all cases wherein we shall judge it 
really needful. 

Now the good Lord be merciful to us, and as he hath put it into our hearts thus 
to devote ourselves to him, let him pity and pardon otu- failkigs and many errors, 
humble us out of all vain confidence, and keep it forever in the thoughts of the 
imaginations of our hearts to be faithful to hhn and to one another, to his praise and 
our eternal comfort, to whom be glory forever. 

Thomas Smith, Isaac Sawyer, Thomas Haskell, Samuel Cobb, John Barber, 
Robert Means, Samuel Moody, John Armstrong, Wm. Jeals, Wm. Jemison." 

Under date August 20, he says in the Records : "This day we fii-st sat down to 
the table of the Lord as a Church ; about thirty comnmnicants." 

Samuel Cobb was chosen the first Deacon, July 10, 1727, 

And the following votes were passed: 

Voted, That in the admission of members into our communion, it be not expected 
that there be formal relations made, as has been the custom of many Churches in 
this country, unless upon some particular occasions it may be thought proper. 

Volcil, That the sacrament of the Lord's supper be administered once in about 



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9. My father came here this morning in an Indian canoe. * 

six or seven weeks, as shall be thought proper by our Pastor — four mouths in the 
winter excepted. 

Voted, That inasmuch as the Church is at present but small and not able of 
themselves to defray the charge of decently furnishing the communion table, the 
matter be proposed to the people of the town, that if any be so piously inchned as 
to assist us, they may have opportunity." 

Mr. Smith adds : 

"This is the first meeting the church had, and a very pleasant one." 

1. The father was at St. George, April 6, 1727, from which place he wrote to 
liis son the following letter, directed " To ye Rev. Mr. Thomas Smith, at 
Falmouth, Casco Bay. Per Lt. Wright." 

"St. Georges Fort, April. 6, 1727. 

Last night arrived here Lt. Wright, with express from his Honor the Lt. 
Governor, chiefly relating to the Indians killing of a cow and some swme m the 
beginning of February, at Montmicus. I suppose there is not paper or mk at 
Falmouth, or you would have wrote me. I wrote you by Sanders, as also by Mr. 
Nutting, both which I suppose you have received. Capt. Giles gives his service to 
you and intreats you will liivor him so far, if you can so order it, as to give us a 
visit here and preach one Sabbath ; Lt. Wright offers that if you will do it, he will 
both come with you and carry you back m his schooner free from all charge. I 
expect to hear from you by return of Mr. Nutting and all opportunities. 

I am, your affectionate Father, T. SMITH." 

In a postscript he adds: "At Boston, its much talked of that here is great 
difference and disagreement between Capt. Giles * and myself; if there should be 
the same at Falmouth, you may assure any body that we have not had the least 
angry word or difference since my arrival here from Boston. By Sander's last trip, 
I had letters which inform me of the great mterest that J. G. has with his 
Honor, &c. And now I would that you treat Lt. Wright with all possible civility, 
he having made sundry observatiops here, which he says he will commit to writing 
and deliver to you; the copy of which I would have you to transmit to me, but the 
original to keep safe and very private. T. S." 

*Capt. John Gyles was the son of Thomas Gyles, a respectable settler at 
Pemaquid before the second Indian war. He was captured by the Indians in the 
beginning of that war, viz: August 2, 1689, at about the age of twelve, and kept until 
June, 1698, when he was released and landed in Boston. He was after this, much 
in the confidence of Government in their relations with the Indians, and a common 
interpreter between them. He superintended building the fort at Brunswick, in 
1715, called Fort George, of which he had the command. In 1725, he was 
appointed to the command of the garrison at St. George's river. In 1736, he 
published a narrative of his captivity, which contains many interesting facts con- 
cerning the customs of the Indians; a new edition of which was published with 
other narratives of Indian captivities, in 1846, by Sam'l G. Drake, Esq., of Boston, to 
whom the public is indebted for much valuable information on the antiquities of onr 
country, and especially relating to the aborigines. Gyles was living at Roxbury in 
1753, aged 73. 

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66 smith's journal. 

16. Col. Westbrook came here. ' 

21. Col. Westbrook went to Richmond. About this time Mr. 
Redding came down here with a considerable quantity of goods in 
order to build a sloop here. 

25. This week I spent very closely in preparation for the Sabbath. 

[The pages of his Journal for the rest of the year contain nothing ; 
on another sheet at the end of the Journal there appears to be a 
continuation of the Journal to the end of the year ; but it contains 
little or nothing more than an account of the arrival and sailing of 
vessels particularly.] 

Septe})iber 10. About thirty vessels before the door for several 
days. 

[From other sources I learn that on the 29th October in this year, 
there was a great earthquake,^ upon which a general revival of 
religion took place ; forty out of one hundred and twenty-four were 
the fruits of it in the Rev. Mr. Emerson's Church in Portsmouth, 
&c., &c. Note. — The Rev. Mr. Gookin was then minister of 
Hampton, in that State, and Rev. Mr, Rogers, of Portsmouth, 
successor to Rev. Mr. Moody. — See Boston Recorder of Jamiary 13, 

1. Thomas Westbrook, of Portsmouth, N. H. He commanded the expedition 
to Norridgewock in 1721, which seized Father Ralle's papers, and was appomted 
by Gov. Dummer to the chief command of the forces on the Eastern frontier in 
1723. He was admitted an inimbitant of Fahnouth, August 17, 1727, and soon 
after, he estabUshed his residence at Stroudwater where he built a house and had a 
garrison. The name lie gave to his seat was " Harrow House," in conformity to 
English usage, and probably gave its present name to the village, from Stroudwater 
in England, on the river Frome, m Gloucestershhe. He was government agent for 
the security of masts for the British navy ; and was a very active and useful 
member of our community. He died February 11, 1744, leaving no son. Enoch 
Freeman administered on his estate, which he sold in 1758, the whole amountuig to 
iE7302 18s. lOd. O. T. He died insolvent, and his name is only preserved in that 
portion of Old Falmouth now called "Westbrook." 

*By this earthquake, stone walls and the tops of several chimneys were thrown 
down; in some places the doors were unlatched and burst open, and people in 
great danger of falling. Its duration is supposed to have been about two minutes, 
and its course from North-west to South-east, and it extended from Kennebec to the 
river Delaware, at least seven hundred miles. On the same day, the Island of 
Martinico was in danger of being entirely destroyed by an earthquake, which con- 
tinued with very short intervals, eleven hours. Jlany lives were lost; St. Peter's 
Church was thrown down ; and beside churches, convents and other buildings, 
above two hundred susrar works were ruined. F. 



smith's journal. 67 

1821, and Christian History for 1743, page 134. Of this book more 
hereafter.] 

1728. 

January 1. There tvas a great light see?i in the North-east in the 
beginning of winter, which, they say, certainly predicts a very cold 
winter, which proves true as to this. 

29. Set out for Boston and arrived February 3rd. 

February 8. I came away from Boston. 

19. I got home; found all things comfortable. Thanks be to 
God. I have rode in all the journey three hundred and nineteen 
miles. 

26. Town meeting to day which was spent in reading the Town 
Books. 

27. Same. 

March 10. Sunday. I preached on the sins of the tmon. 
16. A great many creatures have died this winter by reason of 
the deep snow and scarcity of hay. 

25. My thirty and ten acre lots with the ministry's, were laid 
out. ' 

26. Annual town meeting. The caballing party carried all 
hefore them, and got all the officers of their party. ^ 

This week the Surveyors have been wholly employed in laying out 
thirty acre lots in several parts of the town and especially over at 
Purpoodock, where they have laid out all the land upon the water 
side, which at first occasioned a great disturbance ; that five old 
improved places were given to some furious sparks who alone would 
take them. 

April 19. I sat out for Wells. 

22. Returned home. 



1. These were on the Stroudwater road, fourth and fifth from the " Narrow of 
the Neck," as it was called. 

2. This relates to the controversy between the Old and New Proprietors. The 
caballing party who had the numerical majority embraced the New Proprietors. 
The town officers chosen on this occasion were Benjamin Larrabee, Samuel Cobb, 
Samuel Proctor and John East, Selectmen and Assessors; Samuel Cobb, Town 
Clerk, and Benjamin IngersoU, Treasurer. Mr. Smith was favorable to the Old 
Proprietors ; he had purchased the right of one of them, and his uncle or brother 
John was a large claimant under the Munjoy title. This subject is fully treated in 
Ihe Hist, of Portland, 2, p. 20. 



68 smith's journal. 

29. Nothing but confusion in town. TAe cahalling party broke 
among themselves. 

May 2. This week and the last, there has been a mighty stir and 
unwearied endeavors to omerturii the caballing crew and * * * * 
are the chief instruments, who being disappointed in what they tvere 
seeking after, and more disgusted, leave nw ^tone unturned to put a 
stop to their icnjust mid mad proceedings, and have forced a town 
meeting for these ends. ' 

6. Town meeting. No Representatives chosen. Sat out on a 
journey to Dunstable and returned June 13. 

25. Town meeting chiefly to consider the Selectmen's accounts, 
and after having wrangled all day broke up in a flame ; as near 
fighting as possible. 

26. Mr. Thompson was ordained (at Scarborough.)^ 

July 6. / contracted a most intimate acquaintance ivith Mr. 
Thompson, and spent most of the week past with him. 

10. We hear that the last Thursday's Lecture in Boston, was 
turned into a Fast on account of the drought, and it is worthy of 
remark, that the late plentiful rains began that day ; doubtless in 
answer to prayer. 

13. I sat out on another journey to Dunstable. 

August 13. Returned to Falmouth and found all things well. 

1. Some little check was given to the movements of the New Proprietors by 
these efforts, and at the meeting May 5, the town voted that " No person shall be 
admitted to settle until further consideration." 

2. Wm. Thompson ; he graduated at Harvard, 1718 ; he was the tliird son of 
Rev. Edward Thompson, of Marslifield, and was born in that place in 1697. His 
great grandfather Rev. Win. Thompson, who spelt his name Tompson, was born in 
Lancashire, England, 1598, and came to this country in 1637 ; settled in the 
m'mistry at Braintree, 1639, and died December 10, 1666. He had two wives; by 
the first, Abigail, who died in 1643, he had four sons, viz: William, H. C. 1653; 
Samuel, of Braintree, father of Rev. Edward, of Marshfield; Joseph, of Billerica, 
from whom descended Benjamm, Count Rumford; and Benjamin, H. C. 1662, a 
poet and physician. The first two were born in England, the last two in Braintree. 
His only daughter married Wm. Very. Wm. of Scarborough died m 1759, leaving 
three children by his wife, Anna Hubbard, viz : Wm. of Scarborough, who died 
unmarried in 1807, aged 77; Anna, married Joseph Gerrish, of Kittery; and Rev. 
John, the first minister of Standish, H. C. 1765, who died in 1828, aged eighty- 
eight. His descendants are now living in Standish and Scarborough, and will be 
ttoticed hereafter. 



smith's journal. 69 

September 11. I sat out this morning early [for Dunstable where 
he arrived the next day.] 

12. I was married this evening [to Sarah Tyng.] 

14. I sat out this morning for home, accompanid by Col. 
Tyng, &c. 

28. Got home very comfortably. We were met the day before 
at Scarborough, by Mr. Cobb and several of the people, women 
especially ; had a very noble supper prepared for us. 

November 1. ToAvn meeting to day. One hundred acres of land 
voted to every man. They differed about pews, and adjourned. 

22. There was a great uproar to day about Capt. Larrabce, 
complaining against Isaac Saviryer, for scandalising of him. 

December 28. There continues a desperate uproar in town about 
Capt. Larmbee, # * * several neighbors summoned to York, 
on account of his complaint against Sawyer. 

[The journals of this year contain accounts of visits ; riding out ; 
preaching here and there ; subjects preached ; whether the meetings 
were fully attended or not ; state of the weather ; domestic concerns, 
&;c. &c.] 

1729, 1730, 1731. 

The journals for these years are missing. 

I have collected materials from other sources relative to the town, 
which fall under these years, and will in some measure supply the 
unfortunate loss of those journals. The journal for 1732, Mr. Freeman 
misplaced under the year 1739, I now restore that to its proper place. 

1729. Major Samuel Moody died this year, April 5. The 
following is the inscription on his grave stone in the grave yard at 
Portland : " Here lies interred ye body of Samuel Moody, Esq., one 
of his Majesty's Justices of ye Peace and a Justice of ye Superior 
Court of Common Pleas in ye County of York, and formerly Major of 
his Majesty's forces in ye eastern provinces, who deceased April 5th, 
1729, in ye 52nd year of his age." There is evidently an error in 
the age here given to Mr. Moody ; for he graduated at H. C. in 
1689, forty years prior to his death, which would make him but 
twelve years old at that time; he was, more probably, in his sixty- 
second year. He was son of Rev. Joshua Moody, a very distin- 
guished minister in Portsmouth, N. H., where he was probably born. 



70 smith's journal. 

He himself went into the ministry and preached awhile at New 
Castle, in the neighborhood of Portsmouth. Previous to 1705, he 
had abandoned the clerical profession for the more exciting one 
of arms ; for in that year we find him in command of forty men 
in Newfoundland. In 1709, we • first make his acquaintance in 
Falmouth, at which time he had command of Casco Fort, and was 
in active communication or contention with the Indians for a number 
of years; Casco being then a frontier fort. When this fort was 
dismantled by order of government in 1716, Major Moody estabhshed 
his residence on the Neck, now Portland, where he ever after lived, 
one of the most active, intelligent and useful of its early occupants. 

In 1695, April 4, he married Esther, daughter of Nathaniel 
Green, of Boston, by whom he had two sons, Joshua and Samuel, 
and one daughter, Mary, born November 16, 1701, married Edmund 
Mountfort, by whom she had three sons and two daughters ; 
Elizabeth, born December 2S, 1729 ; Edmund, February 16, 1732 ; 
Samuel, July 4, 1734; Samuel, June 19, 1737; there Avas also 
another daughter Esther, who married Gershom Kogers, in 1755, the 
time of whose birth I do not know : she was probably his eldest 
child. 

Mountfort died in 1737, and his widow in 1751. 

Joshua was born October 31, 1697, graduated at H. C. 1716, died 
1748, and will be more particularly noticed imder the year of his 
decease. Samuel, was born October 29, 1699, H. C. 1718; was first 
a Surgeon in the army and afterward a regular officer ; he died in 
command of Fort George, at Brunswick, September 22, 1758. His 
children were Nathaniel Green, born February 3, 1726; William, 
May 16, 1728; Samuel, August 1, 1730; Joshua, July 5, 1733— all 
in Falmouth ; and Mary, June 17, 1735. 

In September of this year, " the Selectmen were requested to look 
out for a school master to prevent the town's being presented." This 
seems to have been the first movement of the toAMi to establish a 
master school; and the first male teacher employed was Robert 
Bayley, from Newbury, in 1733, at £70 a year. 

The controversy during the years referred to, between the Old and 
New Proprietors, continued to rage with unabated ardor during the 
first portion of the time. In August, 1728, the Old Proprietors 
petitioned the General Court to interpose their authority, and 



smith's journal, 71. 

<' overrule," as they say, " the orders and votes of these people who 
pretend to act in town affairs, choosing Selectmen, creatures of their 
own, who will, in a little time, if not prevented, grant away the 
whole township." They say in their petition : " Since the late peace 
so happily established with the eastern Indians, there are numbers of 
people from almost all parts of the province, and many others from 
beyond sea have rolled in on your petitioners' estates like a flood," 
and without their leave or consent have in a most unjust and 
disorderly manner, set down on and possessed themselves of their 
known estates and settlements." 

January 2, 1729. This petition was read to the town and the 
Selectmen authorized to answer it. The government did not inter- 
fere, but left it to the Courts of law to establish the rights of the 
contending parties. 

In 1729, negotiations were opened with the claimants of the 
Munjoy title, and Avith the Jordan heirs, which resulted in the 
acknowledgment of the titles of those claimants, and the relinquish- 
ment by them of a portion of their claim. 

In the mean time the controversy was carried into Court, where 
the claimants under the New Proprietors, defending at the expense of 
the town treasury, were finally defeated, and the ancient title 
sustained. I annex the copy of a plan* taken to be used in this trial, 
which points out some ancient spots and lines, useful and interesting. 
The Court established the title to the hill which bears his name, in 
the heirs of George Munjoy. 

Januarij 1, 1730. The town raised " a new Committee to 
hear the proposals of the antient proprietors ;" consisting of Capt, 
Dominicus Jordan, John Perry, Joshua Woodbury, John East and 
Moses Pearson. The action was still pending in Court, for a portion 
of Munjoy's hill, and in May, 1730, Capt. Jordan, James Winslow 
and Joseph Bayley, were chosen by the town to answer to it. 

May 4. The town voted a rate of £300, of which £100 was 
appropriated for the minister's salary, the remainder to the town's 
use. 

In 1729, Becember 2, Saccarappa Falls were granted to Benjamin 
IngersoU, Joshua Bayley and Benjamin Larrabee, Jr. & Co., for a 
Saw mill. This was the commencement of lumbering operations on 

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A PLATT OF MUNJOY'S INECK, 

BY 

Phineas Jones & John East, 

1729. 

Taken to show the extent of the 

Munjoy property on the Neck. 



1. Bay ley's house. 

2. P. Hodgekins' house. 

3. Mr. Lawrence's house.* 

4. Okl Barn.* 

5. Burrying place. 

6. Old Meeting house.* 

7. Munjoy's house.* 

8. Runuett of Water. 

9. Fort Loyall.* 

10. Major Moody's house, ) 
Site of Cleeve's house. 5 



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smith's journal. 73 

the Presumpscot, which were continued for more than one hundred 
years, affording liberal returns for the capital and industry employed. 

A Committee was chosen in March, 1729, to agree with a 
Carpenter to finish the minister's house ; but the house was not 
finished until 1732. It was then the best house in town, and in 
1740, contained the only papered room in town; the paper being 
secured by nails instead of paste. 

May 13, 1730. Moses Pearson, Samuel Proctor and ten others, 
styling themselves " Twelve of the proprietors of the common and 
undivided land of the township of Falmouth," held a meeting under 
a warrant from John Gray, of Biddeford, a Justice of the Peace, and 
organized themselves into a Proprietary, under the Statute, against 
the dissent of nineteen other Proprietors. 

They went on making grants of the common lands, appropriating 
money, admitting persons to common rights and assuming the whole 
power over the common domain of the town. The books containing 
the doings of the Proprietors are now deposited in the Registry of 
Deeds for this County. 

In October, 1730, they voted to sell enough of the common lands 
to raise £800 to pay the town debts. 

In 1730, the following grants were made by the Proprietors : 
" Granted to Mr. John Owen, ye lawyer, a right in ye common lands 
for answering Col. Thomas Westbrook and others' complaint against 
the town of Falmouth, provided he also defend the action, Moody 
and al. against Bailey and Hodgekins." This was on the Munjoy 
title. A grant was also made to Mr. Benjamin Gamblin, "ye 
lawyer," "upon condition he do stand Attorney for the town con- 
cerning ye presentments." 

The Proprietary has never formally been dissolved, but it has died 
out for want of common land on which to subsist. The last 
Proprietor's Clerk regularly chosen was Nathan Winslow, of West- 
brook, who died in 1827. He was for many years the factotum of 
the Company. They held their last meeting in 1826, a short time 
previous to which, in the same year, they sold at public auction, for a 
trifling sum, the remnants of the common property. 

In 1773, a Committee was chosen to examine the Proprietors' 
books and report who had received grants and the quantity of land 
laid out to them. They reported that the whole number of persons 
10 



74 smith's journal. 

who had received grants was two hundred and seven, and say: "we 
find the quantity of land laid out to Proprietors and others, amounts 
in the whole to twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-five 
and a half acres and twenty-eight and one-third rods; but it is 
probable, part thereof are removals, and many proprietors appear to 
have more than one hundred and four acres laid out to their rights." 
They add a table of appropriations as follows : 

Amounts of land laid out first to Proprietors, 27,975J acres, 28J rods. 

" " to Signers of the Union, 141^ " 

" " laid out to 104 acre men, 1,501 " 

" " " persons not admitted Proprietors, 1,5945 " 

«« " " " for services and sold, 3,278^ " 56 " 



34,491.^ 
The Committee were Enoch Freeman, Stephen Longfellow and 
Theophilus Bradbury. 

May 21, 1731, the Proprietors admitted to the common rights, 
Edward and John Tyng, on the right of Col. Edward Tyng who 
lived here in 1683, where Edward was born. Edward was the son 
of Col. Edward Tyng, an Old Proprietor, by Elizabeth, daughter of 
Thaddeus Clark, who was daughter of Michael Mitton and grand 
daughter of George Cleeves, the first settler of the town in 1632, and 
the father of Col. William Tyng who resided here before the Eevolu- 
tion, and Sheriff of the County at that time. John was cousin of 
the Edward who was admitted at the same time with him ; he died 
at Tyngsboro', Mass., in 1797, in the ninety-fourth year of his age. 
Edward died in Boston, September 8, 1755, having been distin- 
guished as a Naval officer, and having commanded the Massachusetts 
Naval forces with high reputation and success at the capture of 
Louisburg, in 1745. He married for his second wife, Ann, a sister of 
Brig. Samuel Waldo, by whom he had three children, viz : Ann, who 
married a British officer and died in 1756 ; Edward, an officer in the 
British army, who died in England, a bachelor, in 1776, and 
William, the Sheriff before mentioned, who died December 10, 1807, 
aged seventy. 

1732. 

The matter which I have restored to this year, was evidently 
misplaced by Mr. Freeman under 1739, misled by the leaves of 
the Almanac in which it was preserved. ' 

[A part of the journal for this year appears to be missing, viz : the 



smith's journal, 75 

first three aiid the last month ; I say " this year," as it is covered 
with the outsides of the Almanac for this year, [1739,] but there is 
no date to the journal. F.] 

Ajrril. [From the 1st to the 10th is an account of a journey to 
York, where he prayed with the Court, at which he had some 
business. The other part of the journal, though very full, is not 
interesting.] 

May 18. We had a public fast to pray for the success of the 
Gospel. [Several ministers present ; Mr. Willard preached.] * 

[The journal for the rest of the month gives an account of a 
journey to Dunstable.] 

Jime. [This month is occupied with an account of a trip to 
Boston, and journey to Dunstable, of Mr. Smith, his wife and child.] 

Jidy 13. The Governor and several gentlemen came here in a 
man-of-war from Kennebec. " 

20. This morning a sloop came from Boston with the Councillors, 
Representatives and other gentlemen ; and gentlemen from all parts 
of the country. 

25. To-day came here a great many of the chiefs of the tribes. 
They made a great show. 

26. The Indians appearing with French colors ; the Governor 
would not see them to-day. The Governor dined at Mr. Wheeler's ; 
and about forty gentlemen, mostly young men, dined at my house. 

27. There is nothing more remarkable this week than that the 
Governor and gentlemen are on the hill almost every day, where 
there was a spacious great tent, with seats and benches, and where 
they met the Indians. 

1. Rev. Samuel Willard, who Wvis settled at Biddeford September 30, 1730, 
son of Rev. Samuel Willard, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, and Vice 
President of Harvard College. He died suddenly m Kittery, where he went to 
preach, in October, 1741. He was father of Rev. Joseph Willard, President of 
Harvard College, wlio was born in Biddeford in 1738. He left two other sons, and 
one daughter, who married the Rev. Richard Chadwick, of Scarborough. His 
widow married the Rev. Mr. Elvins, of Scarboro', and died in Petersham, 
September 19, 1785, in her seventy-ninth year. 

2. Jonathan Belcher was at that time Governor of Massachusetts. He came in 
the ship Scarborough, Capt. Durrell, with a quorum of the Council and a number 
of the House of Representatives and other gentlemen to hold a Conference with the 
Indian tribes. 



76 smith's journal. 

28. The Governor did not meet the Indians to-day, he being with 
all the other gentlemen up to Col. Westbrook's, at a dinner. 

29. There was a public dinner on the hill, where the English and 
about two hundred Indians dined. P. M. Delivering presents to the 
Indians. * 

30. The 'Governor set out for Saco by four in the morning and 
the gentlemen went on board the vessels. 

31. The Governor lodged at my father's truck-house, [at Saco,] 
this night. 

August 2. The vessels all sailed to-day. They have left us 

1. There were one hundred of the Penobscot tribe present, represented by 
Loron, their chief Captain and Speaker. There were also present Toxus, chief 
Sachem of the Norridgevvocks ; Miawando, of the Pigwackets ; Medaganesset, 
of the Ameriscoggins, Wahway and Wiwurna, prominent speakers in the Confer- 
ence. The Indians had their quarters on Ilog Island, and the Conference was 
held under a large tent, on Munjoy's hill. The signal for meeting was a gun from 
the man of war, and hoisting the King's Jack at the main top. The Indians were 
presented with the English colors, which they were requbed to display on the 
principal canoe when they came to the Conference. 

The Indians brought presents of furs at the opening of the Conference, and at its 
close received English presents in return. 

Toxus who spoke first for the Indians, said : " It is God who has the overruling 
power over all things, that has brought us together at this time 

" The reason of our coming now is our hearty desire of love and friendship. 
" As a token of our being glad to see your Excellency, I shake hands, and ofler 
this as our money." [Laid down furs.] 

The time was occupied in making complaints of aggressions and renewing 
promises of reparation and friendship. 

On the subject of education and religion, when the Governor urged them to be 
instructed in the English religion, and offered to give instruction to them and their 
children freely, and to bring up their children " to learning in the College," they 
very cooly and politely evaded the proposition. Loron merely replied, "We will 
consider of what your Excellency has said." The next day he gave a truly 
diplomatic answer. 

" Friend ! We have been thinking of what your Excellency said to us, 
yesterday. As to Prayers, it was mentioned in the Treaty, that there should be no 
dispute about religion. It would be a light proceeding in us, to answer what you 
have said on that affair. We are too few to enter into this dispute, which is a 
weighty matter. There are other tribes to be discoursed with; and when we know 
their minds we shall be better able to answer. \Ve had the advice of the other 
tribes about the Peace, and therefore thhik it proper to have their advice in this 
affair." 



SMITHS JOURNAL. // 

quite hare, and nothing of the country's produce left, only three 
bushels of corn and some small things. They allowed £12 for our 
house. 

24. We had a public fast to pray for the success of the Gospel ; 
many of the people attended ; Blinisters — Jeffries, Thompson, Cutter, 
Moody and Prentice. * 

September 6. I visited all the people at Spurwink, excepting one 
Simonton, and a few on the Cape. 

21. There was a meeting of the New Proprietors to-day, at which 
they could not do any thing by reason of Mr. Mountfort and some 
others not being allowed Proprietors. 

22. They finished the meeting to-day, entirely to the satisfaction 
of every body. The New Proprietors took in the Old ones by vote, 
(and others,) all signed Articles of Agreement. This was the 
happiest meeting Falmouth ever had. Thanks to God. ^ 

24. There are twelve coasting sloops, besides some schooners that 
all lie close before the door. 

25. I reckon I have in a short space of time past, visited all the 

1. Of most of these ministers we have spoken. Animi Ruhamah Cutter was 
ordained in North Yarmouth, in November, 1730, and Tliomas Prentice, at 
Arundel, the same month. 

2. Articles of agreement were drawn up and signed by the Old and New Propri- 
etors in May, 1732, for an arrangement of all dithculties; sixty-seven names are on 
this paper; and John Sawyer and Edmund Mountfort sign it with a condition that 
certain lots mentioned are laid out to persons legally entitled to them. On the 4th 
of September, the same year, another agreement was entered into and subscribed by 
the principal persons of the town, styled " Articles of Agreement made between 
the Antient and New Proprietors of the common land of the town of Falmouth." 
This provides for a'proper distribution of the common property, and that "all per- 
sons who have their land laid ovit on antient property shall remove and take lots in 
the connnon and undivided land in said township." They further say, "And 
whereas there hath been meetings held in said town by different parties to the great 
detriment of the public good of said towii, and to put a final end to those unhappy 
disputes, we consent and agree to combine and corporate into one body and do allow 
and confirm the Propriety which was settled the 13th May, 1730, provided there be 
no votes in said propriety, but that each proprietor, viz., Old and New, shall have 
an equal share in the common land." 

On this basis the settlement was made, and all subsequent grants and disposition 
of the public or common land were made exclusively by the Proprietors in their 
regular meetings. Mr. Smith might well say on tlie couchisioii of this agreement, 
that it was the happiest meeting lalmoulh ever had. 



78 smith's journal. 

people except at Stroudwater and a few at the North-east part of the 
town. 

October IS. This day sat out for Boston. [The rest of the 
month is taken up with an account of his journey out, there and 
home.] 

November 9. To-day the Committee are selling £600 worth of 
land. They sold one thousand acres. ' 

30. Yesterday Mr. Moody was ordained. " 

[Mr. Smith in his Sabbath days' journals, generally mentions 
whether the meetings are full or thin, and very often that strangers 
were present, how he was affected, and Avhen he was afterwards 
" tired," and this was not unfrequent.] 

1733. 

January. [The beginning of this month, Mr. Smith took a 
journey to Boston.] 

7. I preached at Greenland. I hope I did some good ; the people 
seemed mightily affected. 

11. Attended the Fast, (at Cape Porpus.) Mr. Cutter gave great 
offence by his rank Arminianism. ^ 

1. October 17. The Proprietors voted that Rev. ^h. Smith have jEIGO paid 
him out of the money due from Mr. Samuel Waldo to this propriety for his salary 
and firewood the present year. This was equal at that time to about two hundred 
and fifty dollars in silver. About the same time the town voted £146 14s. lOd. for 
finishing Rev. Mr. Smith's house. Eight hundred acres of this land, mentioned 
November 9, was sold to Samuel Waldo, of Boston, who was making large 
purchases in different parts of the town. The above was situated on the south side 
of Stroudwater river. The Conmiittee were Col. Westbrook, Capt. Domiuicus 
Jordan and others. 

2. Mr. Joseph Moody, in the Second Parish at York; he was son of the Rev. 
Samuel Moody, of the First Parish in York, graduated at H. C. 1718. Before he 
was settled, he was Town Clerk of York, Register of Deeds for the County, and 
Judge of the County Court. lie gave up his Civil offices at the solicitation of his 
father, for the ministry. lie continued but about six years in the ministry; 
becoming gloomy and partially deranged, he retired from the pastoral office, and 
relinquished all public labor. He died in 1753, aged fifty-three. 

3. Rev. Ammi R. Cutter, of North Yarmouth. He was ordained in Nov., 
1730, the first settled minister in that town. He was dismissed in 1735, and the 
above notice in the journal gives us a clue to the cause. He was born in West 
Cambridge, graduated at H. C. in 1725, and died at Louisburg, in the service of 



smith's journal. 79 

12. Rode home alone, found all well through the goodness of 

God. 

14. Sioiday. I was much carried out, and the people seemed 
mightily affected. 

29. Some of the ship's men were put in the stocks by order of 
Justice Wheeler. 

27. To-day was our town meeting; pretty peaceable. Messrs. 
Wheeler, Pearson, East, Thorndike and Cobb, Selectmen ; Wheeler, 
Treasurer, and Pearson, Clerk. 

29. Public Fast. A very full meeting. I was as much enlarged, 
and had the most extraordinary assistances that ever (I think) I 
found. I was longer much, and prayed with greater freedom, 
distinctness and propriety, than ever I did on a Fast day ; and I here 
record it to encourage myself to depend and rely upon God, having 
been enabled to pray for assistance more than usual, being out of 
order, and much concerned about it. 

April 7. I have not been from home this week. Have written a 
great deal. [This he seems to have done generally, from a view of 
his sermons in my possession, and an account of them among his 
papers. I imagine that in the course of his life, he wrote and 
preached not less than three thousand.] 

19. Every body has had bad colds. 

May 7. Town meeting. They unanimously voted me £160 for 
my salary. 

June 23. To-day Mr. Wheeler came from Boston and brought 
news tha! the West India Bill about Molasses, rose lOd in the gallon. 

July 18. Sat out for Boston, arrived 23d. 

August 4. Returned from Boston ; found friends all well. 
September 5. We all rode in the Colonel's ^ new road, to see the 
place where the paper mill is to be set, [at Stroudwater.] 

18. To-day the inhabitants of Purpoodock had a Parish meeting, 

Government, in March, 1746. He was an active and enterprising man. After his 
dismissal, he practised physic, had charge of tlie Truck liouse in Saco, and 
engaged in various enterprises; among which it is said that he prepared, wliile at 
Saco, a Dictionary of the Indian language ; but the work cannot now be found. 
Dr. A. R. Cutter, a distinguished Physician in Portsmouth, who died in 1819, was 
his son. His descendants are living in that place, North Yarmouth and Portland. 
Levi Cutter, of this city, is his grandson. 
1. Col. Westbrook's, 



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and voted to build a meeting house, and chose Mi\ Allen to be their 
minister, ' 

October 24. The sloops all sailed this morning. I suppose there 
were about thirty. 

Nov. 9. Mr. Parker came here, bound to Boston to be ordained. 

December 7. I make a practice of working some every day. 

80. I rode to the Truck house. " 

[The pages of his journal for this year are occupied with accounts 
of the weather and of ministerial and social visits, more fully than 
usual, and of planting, sowing and reaping, &c.] 

1734. 

Jmmary 13. Sumlay. Sac. Can. about forty at the communion. 

February 13. We had news from Boston that there is like to be 
peace. 

15. Town meeting about building me a garrison ; East opposed 
and prevented it, but several of the people beat up volunteers and set 
about it. There were about fifty hands went to work on it. 

March 11. All the talk for a great while past is about war 
expected ; ^ we have often rumors of war, and sometimes news that 
it is peace. 

23. All the week I am hurried about my garrison. 

28. I had about fifty persons assisting in raising my garrison, and 
had a magnificent supper for them. 

1. Tfiis was the Second Parish established in Fahnouth. The meeting house 
was built on the hill where the present house stands. The frame was of white oak 
cut on the spot. The minister was Rev. Benjamin Allen, who had been previously 
settled at South Bridgewater, Mass., in July, 1718, and was dismissed from ihere 
about 1728. See note to May 6, 1754, for his death and family. 

2 Saco; his father kept the Truck house there. 

3. The war to which this notice refers, was one then raging on the continent of 
Europe between Austria, and France and Spain, wliich commenced in 1733, and 
terminated with France in 1738, and with Spain in 1739. 

The apprehension of an Indian war which led to the garrison spoken of, was 
caused by symptoms of uneasiness which appeared among the Eastern Indians iii 
consequence of the extension of English claims and the laying out of townships 
upon lands over which the natives had been accustomed to hunt. Their passions 
were inflamed by intoxicating liquors, which were introduced among them by 
irregular traders. The Governor visited the eastern coast this summer, received 
new assurauces of peace and removed all apprehension. 



smith's journal. 81 

. April 17. We are all hushed about the new)^ of peace. 

May 12. 1 sat out with my wife on a journey, (to Dunstable.) 

June 5. Got home, found all well. Thanks to God. 

25. Had the gates of my garrison liung. 

July 28. We were much alarmed to-day by news about the 
Indians appearing in a great body. There was a watch this night. 

29. To-day we had a scout of men went out to see if they could 
make any discovery of Indians, There certainly is a number of 
Canadian Indians somewhere on the back of us. 

August 3. The coasters have entered into bonds not to carry any 
more wood to Boston for a month. 

10. There were four of the Cape Indians drowned to-day going to 
North Yarmouth. 

September 5. Mr. Waldo came to town. 

16. I sat out with Mr. Wheeler on a journey to Boston. 

19, (At York,) I was to see the Indian woman that murdered 
Trott's child. 

25. Sailed from Boston. 

27. Got home ; found all well : thanks to God. 
October 6. Sunday. Sac. Cce7i. seventy communicants. 
16. Messrs. Jefferds and Cutter came here. We kept a public 
fast to pray for the efTusion of the Holy Spirit on the youth. 

20. Sunday. Not a very full meeting, but a great many young 
people. They preached to them. 

November 6. My father came here. 

8. I rode with my father to see the Colonel's great dam. 

10. Mr. Allen was installed. I was there. Mr. Willard preached ; 
Mr. Thompson gave the charge, and Mr. Jefierds the right hand of 
fellowship. * 

September 31, Destina P. M. Deum Laudare. 

[Excepting his illness at sundry times, Mr. Smith seems to have 

1. The church was formed by five persons dismissed from the First Parish, and 
six others, including the Pastor. The vote of Mr. Smith's church was as follows : 
"Voted, To dismiss John Armstrong, William Jamison, Robert Means, Robert 
Thorndike and Jonathan Cobb, from their particular relation to us, in order to 
their embodying in and forming a distinct church on Purpoodock side of the river. ' ' 

Wolves were so plenty in Falmouth at this time, that the town voted to allow 
£10 for the head of a full grown wolf killed in Falmouth, over what the Province 
allowed. 

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enjoyed himself much with his friends this year, and to have 
attended many sick persons in his ministerial capacity.] 

1735. 

January. [This month contains an account of a journey to 
Dunstable, from 5th to IGth. The other part of the Journal is 
similar to what is repeatedly recorded.] 

February 4. I sat out with my father on a journey to Boston. 

June 19. (At York,) prayed with the Court. The Indian was 
brought to trial. 

21. Got w^ell home; found all very well: thanks to God. I 
never experienced more of the goodness of God than in this journey. 
Met with no difficulty, no disappointment ; but with great civility 
and kindness in every place. 

July 1 . There is an abundance of strawberries in my swamp. 
14. I sat out on a journey; (returned the 18th.) 

22. Ministers' meeting at Scarborough. 

30. All hands set out in Mr. Wheeler's boat for Brunswick. 
August. [A full page, and very finely written ; but it contains 

nothing particularly interesting : there was however a Council at 
North Yarmouth, respecting Mr. Cutter. * 

September 16. I rode round by the Falls to see the distressed 
families who lost their relatives aboard Boardman. 

October 13. I sat out on a journey to Boston; (returned 25th.) 

31. We had a Fast (as there has been almost every year) on 
account of the sickness which broke out at Kingston, * N. H., and 

1. A notice of Mr. CuUer and his dismissal will be found under 1733. 

The General Court this year appointed one tenn of the Superior Court to be held 
annually in Falmouth, in October, which was the first time under Massachusetts 
that any Court had been held here. This was on the application of the inhabitants 
of the eastern towns, who applied to the Legislature either to divide the Comity of 
York, or order the Superior Court to be held further east than it had been. The 
Justices and Sheriff all lived west of Saco river. The population of Falmouth at 
that time did not probably exceed one thousand. 

*This was an epidemic disease, which obtained the name of the throat 
distemper, which made its appearance in May and spread gradually through the 
township during the summer. Of the first forty who had the disease, none 
recovered. In August it began to make its appearance at Exeter; and in Sep- 
tember in Boston. It continued its ravages through the succeeding winter and 
spring; and did not disappear until the end of the ne.\t summer. In the proviuce of 



SMITH S JOURNAL. h6 

which is got as far Cape Porpoise, and carries off a great many 
children and young persons and alarms the whole country. 

November 6. I first heard of Brunswick Fort being burnt. 

9. Sunday. Twenty vessels, chiefly sloops, sailed this morning. 

December 12. To-day Mr. Cutter was finally dismissed at a town 
meeting. 

[The journals from 1733, inclusively, take up two full octavo pages 
to each month. They show the industry of the writer, not only in 
the making of the records, but in the daily employments which are, 
in a very considerable degree, the subjects of them. 

The following journal has no date of the year to it ; but some 
circumstances induce me to suppose it was made in the year 1736. 
Each month, like the last three, takes up two pages.] 

1736. 

Jamrnry. [I see nothing in this month that needs to be recited.] 

February. [I may say the same of this.] 

March 12. Parish meeting ; they raised my salary £30 so that 
it is now £230. I did not expect so much or hear that they 
designed it. ' 

April. [I do not think it needful to notice any thing in this month. 

May. [Nor in this, unless it be the following.] 

29. I went over to Mr. Allen ; met the ministers on the affair of 
the Irish. They came over with me to dinner. ^ 

New Hampshire, not less than one thousand persons, of whom nine hundred were 
under twenty years of age, fell victims to this malignant distemper. In Boston, 
four thousand persons had the same disease; and one himdred and fourteen died. 
In Haverhill, Mass., there died of the same disease from November 17, 1735 to 
October 6, 1737, one hundred and ninety-nine persons. The number of inhabitants 
of Boston was estimated at sixteen thousand. This disease gradually spread west- 
ward, and was two years in reaching the river Hudson, about two hundred miles 
in a straight line from Kingston. It continued its progress, with some interruption 
until it spread over all the colonies. F. 

1. The salary referred to was m paper money, which had been depreciatiiig 
at a very rapid rate from 1702, when it was at par, to 1749, when it had fallen so 
low that it required £1100 currency to purchase £100 sterling; and silver was 
eixty shillings an ounce. In 1736, £100 sterling could buy £500 currency; so that 
Mr. Smith's salary of £230 was worth £46 sterling, or $204,25, for which it 
seems, he was very thankful. 

2, This affair of the Irish was a controversy on the subject of Church govern- 



84 smith's journal, 

June. [Nor in this, anything.] ' 



ment, between the Irish immigrants and the other inhabitants. The Irish were of 
the Presbyterian order ; Elder Armstrong, his son m law Robert Means, William 
Jemison and others, were of Scotch descent, and of those who took refuge in 
Ireland for conscience's sake, when the English Government endeavored to force 
Episcopacy upon them. Even in this country, where they enjoyed perfect liberty of 
conscience, they were unwilling to relinquish even the matter of form. The 
controversy was severe and protracted, surviving the ministry of Mr. Allen. 
Nothing effectual was accomplished by this meeting of the ministers, and in 
November, the Presbyterian party installed Rev. Mr. McClanethan, a staunch 
supporter of that persuasion, from the north of Ireland; but they were unable long 
to support him, and he went to Georgetown and Brunswick, and finally to Chelsea, 
m Mass., while they continued uneasy and dissatisfied, their imaginations haunted 
with the associations of Synods and General Assemblies, and a venerable line of 
Pastors traced down from John Knox, the Reformer. In 1748, Mr. BlcClanethan 
was preaching in Chelsea^ Mass., and was invited to settle, notwithstanding some 
opposition. One of the dissatisfied members, Jacob Hussey, wrote to Mr. Smith, 
August 26, 1748, for an account of him, saying, " that after all my inquiries into 
his character, to me it still appears bad." He adds, "there is a considerable 
number dissatisfied as well as myself. ' ' 

1. It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Freeman should have made so sparing 
use of the journal, which he states to have been remarkably full during this period. 
We may be excused therefore in borrowing from the Church records in Mr. Smith's 
writing the following facts : 

" 17-36, June 16. On a day of fasting and prayer, the church solemnly renewed 
their covenants ; at wliich solemnity were present all the Church except three male 
members, two of which were out of town and the third sick ; and a very few 
women were absent. 

N. B. This solemn transaction was agreed upon by the Church npon occasion of 
the terrible distemper that has been and is still prevailing in the land, which has 
swept away such multitudes of the children and younger people, and which, since 
it has come into the houses in this town has become greatly mortal. 

"The whole of the day as well as this particular transaction was attended and 
carried on with an uncommon solemnity, and was taken notice of by the ministers 
present and assisting, and others. I\Iay it have an happy influence and effect, and 
prove indeed a day of atonement. Amen." 

Twenty-five persons were added to the Church this year. 

We have not the means of determining the number of victims to this disease, 
which was called the "Throat distemper," in Falmouth; in May, 1737, Mr. 
Smith mentions that seventy-five had died of it here. It was the most fatal scourge 
that ever visited New England, and rapidly hurried its subjects to the grave : the 
throat swelled, became covered with ash colored specs, great debility and prostra- 
tion enaued, with puH^faction. 



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July. [There is here nothing remarkable.] 

August 14. I sat out with Deacon Beautineau for Boston. [He 
arrived there the 24th.] 

September 1. Came away from Boston ; had a fine passage of 
seventeen hours. 

9. We were exceedingly alarmed ■with news of the Indians 
attacking Saco, and the guns being frequently heard. 

11. The front of my garrison was done up. 

13. We have a great deal of thought and talk about war. 

20. The measles has been in town for several months. 

October 22. I am much discouraged ; I feel so feeble and broken. 

30. I have reason to think I have the distemper going about, viz : 
the slow fever and sore throat, and that I took it of Daniel Kent who 
died lately. 

November 15. Mr. McClanethan installed. I had a clash with 
him. 

17. Many persons are taken down, as I was, with a sore throat 
and pain in the head and other bad symptoms, but soon over. 

December. [Nothing remarkable.] 

(Mr. Smith frequently mentions having persons to dine with him, 
I especially on Sabbath days, from which I conclude he was very 
hospitable.) 

1737. 

January 3. There is no wood, little corn ; sad complaints every 
where. * 

Nicholas Loring was ordained tliis year in North Yarmouth. He graduated at 
H. C. 1732, and died in August, 1763; a native of Hull, Mass. 

John East died this year without issue. He was a Shipmaster; his wife was a 
daughter of John Oliver, of Boston. He came here about 1720, and filled impor- 
tant stations in town. His widow married Henry Wheeler, and had issue; her 
third liusband was James Gooding, to whom she was married in 1753 ; she died 
1778, aged seventy-eight. Her last husband died 1780, aged eighty-four. 

1. The attention of the people had been turned so much to lumbering operations 
that they neglected the cultivation of the land. Lumber was in constant demand, 
and afforded a quick remuneration for labor; but the consequence was, frequent 
suffering for the necessaries of life. Agricultural pursuits continued to be neglected 
so long as there remained a supply of timber to be manufactured; and it is only 
within a very few years, that this most vital branch of industry, the cultivation of 
the soil, has received among us adequate attention. 



86 smith's iOURNAL. 

4. Now there is corn tliere is no grinding ; people know not what 
to do.' 

9. The distemper is broke out afresh, and proves mortal at York 
and Wells. [It appears from the mention of a child's death, to have 
been the throat distemper.] 

11, The distemper is in several places in the Parish. Neal lost 
three children. 

19. Mr. Waite came in from Boston in about eleven hours. 

February 11. Brunswick and Pemaquid Forts (which were 
dismantled this session) are continued till May session. 

19. I was at prayer with a number of the Parish who met about 
a new Meeting house. ' 

March 5. It is a melancholy time in regard to the scarcity of 
corn ; some have had none for several weeks. 

12. The distemper which seemed to be gone has broke out again 
in several houses. 

23. Sailed for Boston. 

30. All the talk in Boston is about the mob that pulled down the 
market. ^ 

ApTtl S. Got home after a pleasant passage. 

21. All the talk is, — no corn, no hay, and there is not a peck of 
potatoes to cat in all the eastern country. 

Ma7j 1. The distemper is now bad at North Yarmouth. In all 
seventy-five have died of it in the whole town; forty here and 
twenty-six in Purpoodock. 

1 . Several Corn mills had been established at this time in the neighborhood ; one 
at Lawrence's Cove, in Cape Elizabeth, one at Capisic, and a third at Fall brook, 
Back Cove; these brooks furnished but scanty supplies of water, and for many- 
years, by the clearing up of the land, have not afforded sufficient to move 
machinery. The expense of building dams across the larger rivers was too serious 
an operation for our early settlers. 

2. This was the first movement toward the erection of the house which was 
placed on the spot where the stone Church now stands. The project encountered 
great opposition, and not being approved by the majority of the Parish, was carried 
on by individual enterprise. We shall hear more about this hereafter. The 
opposition sprung from two causes, expense and remoteness from the settlement. 

.3. There was a great scarcity of provisions at that time in Massachusetts aa 
well as in the whole pastern rountry. Much distress prevailed in Boston in the 
Spring of this year, and this outbreak was probably occasioned by high price* am^ 
the exactions of the market people. 



smith's journal, 87 

3. Mr. Goodwin came in with three hundred bushels of corn. 
So that there is great rejoicing in town. Thanks to God. 

June 4, Corn is 10s. a bushel in Boston ; hardly any to be got. 

20. Sat out for Boston. 

Juhj 8. Was at Commencement. 

15. Got home. 

August 3. Ministers' meeting here. * 

September 17. The distemper is beginning at Black Point ; two 
or three children have died of it. 

October 13. The distemper is still bad at Scarborougli. Not one 
has lived that has had it of late, 

14. They attempted to launch the mast ship, but she stuck. 

1. There was an Association of ministers in the County, and this was 
probably their meeting. 

Edmund Mounifort died this year, Nov. 21, aged about 43. lie was born in 
Boston, where his father and grandfather of the same name, hved, who as well as 
hunself were educated merchants. His father was born July 11, 1664, in Boston, 
and died about 1700, leaving Edmund and Elizabeth his only children : Elizabeth 
married a Greeward. His mother married Wm. Shepreeve, of Boston, in 1703. 
Edmund was connected at first with the army, as Commissary which led him uito 
this part of the country; he was with the troops under Major Moody and Col. 
Westbrook. In 1717 and 1718, he was at Small Point, the mouth of Kennebec 
river and attempted a settlement there of a town under the name of Augusta, by 
the patronage of the Pejepscot Proprietors, Adam Winthrop, Oliver Noyes and 
others. In 1726, he is styled of Boston, merchant, in a deed of a portion of 
Munjoy's hill which he purchased of the heirs, and probably came here the same 
year to look after the property. In April, 1728, the town voted, "that Mr. 
Edmund Mountfort should come into town, on the town's former promise to him." 
Soon after this, he married Mary, the only daughter of Major Moody, by whom he 
had Elizabeth, born December 28, 1729, who died in Westbrook, unmarried, in 
1819. Edmund, bom February 16, 1732. Esther married Gershom Rogers in 
1755, and Samuel, born June 19, 1737. His son Ednumd had six sons and two 
daughters, and died in 1806, aged seventy-five. Samuel lived unmarried until he 
was seventy years old, after which he was twice married ; the last time when he 
was over eighty years old. He died m 1820, aged eighty-three, without issue. 

Edmund the first who came here was an active and mtelligent man; a good 
writer and draughtsman; in which service he was much employed at a period 
when there were no lawyers m this part of the country. He wrote a beautiful 
hand ; was Deputy Sherifl^, Selectman, town Agent, &c. So great was his 
capacity for business and so varied his talents, that his death was a severe loss to 
the community. His widow died in 1751 ; all of the name in this vicinity 
descended from him, through Edmund the only one of his sons who left issue. 



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Km-emher 18. Tliere has been a distressing time in Boston for 
want of bread : but the night before thanksgiving, fifteen hundred 
barrels of flour was brought in, which reduced the price from 60s. to 
55s. a hundred. 

26. Three children have died this week of the distemper in the 
town, and the pleurisy fever prevails and has proved mortal to several 
at North Yarmouth. 

Becemher 1. We have melancholy accounts of the sickness at 
North Yarmouth. 

2. The distemper is now bad at Purpoodock, one Morton has 
buried three out of four. 

9. All that had the pleuretic fever have died of it, save one. 

22. There Avas a meeting of the Parish who voted to me £200 
for my last year's salar}\ 

Through the goodness of God, I and mine are brought to the close 
of another year. 

[Though Mr. Smith had been very frequently out of health, he 
here makes reflections on various mercies he had been favored with.] 

Note. "A hea^7 shock of an earthquake was felt in New Jersey this year. 
It caused doors to fly open, and bricks to fall from the chinmies — and excited great 
consternation; yet did but little actual injury." F. 

1738. 

January 5. Stroudwater Bridge fell do\ATi. 

February 16. I sat out on my journey to Boston, (arrived 23rd) ; 
25th left Boston. 

March 4. Returned to Falmouth by water. 

April 13. Public Fast. I had extraordinary assistance ; was an 
hour and a half in prayer, A. M., and above an hour P. M. 

17. 1 was at the funeral of Mr. Townsend who died yesterday. 

June 8. I went away this evening in ]\Ir. West for Boston. 

10. Got to Boston about one. 

23. Came away in Stickney. 

24. Got to Cape Ann. 

25. Got home. 

27. The canker distemper is broke out in Milton, Woburn and 
Cape Ann, and is at North Yarmouth. 

August 10. The town and country are now in an alarm by news 



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that Cox brought from the eastward. We keep a watch every night 
on the neck. 

16. I was in the evening at prayer with one Dyer and her child 
wlio had the throat distemper, which prevails and proves universally 
mortal at the Falls. 

18. Col. Pepperil with the officers of the militia and troops came 
down here by order of the Governor to enquire into the preparedness 
for war. 

30. At Mr. Powell's, (North Yarmouth.) 

September 1. I paddled myself to New Casco, dined at Mr. 
Noice's and visited several families there. 
11. I set sail for Boston. 

13. Set sail for Falmouth. 

14. Got home. I was twenty-two hours going, twenty-nine 
hours there, twenty-two coming home. 

19. There was a Council to-day about Mr. Prentiss' leaving his 
people. ' 

22. Five of Mr. Allen's family have died (within a week) of the 
throat distemper. 

October 14. My wife was delivered of a son to-day. - 

15. (Sunday.) We baptized our child, John. 

November 4. The throat distemper is still exceeding bad at Saco. 

22. The church suspended Mrs. =*=^=*^*** (on account of her 
drunkenness.)^ 

[Though but few extracts are made from Mr. Smith's Journal this 
year, it should be noticed that his time seems to have been fully 
employed as in former years.] 

1739. 

Having been obliged by fidelity to truth, to transfer to 1732 the 
matter which was placed in the first edition of this journal under 
1739, we have a hiatus here much to be lamented. The misappre- 
hension of Mr. Freeman in regard to the year, led Williamson into 
an error in his history of Maine, vol. 2, p. 201, in assigning to this 

1. Thomas Prentice, of Arundel, now Kennebunk, H. C. 1726. He waa 
settled in Nov. 1730, dismissed, in 1738, and afterwards settled in Charlestown, 
Mass., where he died 1782. 

2. John ; he studied medicine at Portsmouth, and died 1773. 

3. Mary Rideout, wife of Nicholas Rideout. She was afterwards restored; 
the case was examined by the Pastor and a Committee. 

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year a treaty with the Indians at Falmouth. This took place in 1732, 
and there was no Conference here or occasion for it in 1739. 

War was declared by England against Spain in October of this 
year. Previous to which, letters of nnarque had been issued against 
her in New England, and a force raised to assist in the capture of 
Cuba. 

The following persons were received into the church this year, viz * 
Ann Wilson, Isaac Ilsley and Abigail his wife, James Merrill and 
wife, and Susannah Blake, dismissed from other churches ; Eliphalet 
Watson, Abigail Tarrant, Mary Jones and Dorcas Cox; Joshua 
Weeks from the Church in Greenland. 

I am not able to state who this Joshua Weeks was ; I do not find 
any descendants from him ; and he is probably the person mentioned 
in the list of deaths under 1756, as " Mr. Weeks." Those of the 
name here now as far as I can trace them, descended from Wm. 
Weeks, who was admitted an inhabitant December 14, 1727. He 
lived at first on Chebeague Island, but moved on to the Neck in 1744, 
where he died in 1749 or 1750. His house stood in the fields near 
where High street now is. His children were William, Lemuel, 
Abigail, who married Benjamin Mussey, 1752 ; Esther, married to 
Stephen Woodman, the same year; and A7ni, married to Enoch 
Moody, 1750 ; Wilham, married Rebecca Tuttle in 1749 ; Lemuel 
married Peggy, a daughter of James Gooding in 1750, by whom he 
had three sons and two daughters, viz : Lemuel, James, Joseph, 
Elizabeth married to Jonathan Bryant in 1771, and Sarah to Daniel 
Freeman in 17S9. The issue of these diflferent branches are now 
living here. Joseph married Lois, a daughter of Joshua Freeman in 
1784, and had Joseph, Eunice, Daniel, Mary and Joshua F., the first 
and last of whom are in active life here : he died in 1797, and his 
widow died in 1829, aged sixty-nine. Lemuel, the son of Lemuel, 
married Sarah Crabtree in 1780, and had by her William Crabtree, 
Sally, Lemuel, Margaret, Betsey, Daniel Freeman, Lydia and Jane. 
Sally married Capt. Richard Motley and are both dead, without issue ; 
Margaret married first George W. Duncan, a merchant of this town, 
by whom she had a son and a daughter, who married Wm. T. Smith 
a great grandson of our journalist ; and second, Abel W. Atherton 
by whom she had several children now living; Betsey married 
Charles Atherton, and Lydia, William Crabtree, of Savannah, her 
cousin, and both have issue ; Jane remains single. All are living but 



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William, Sally and Daniel, William married Jane, a daughter 
of Arthur McLellan, and Lemuel, Jane, a daughter of Thomas 
Robison. Major Lemuel Weeks, the father, Avas an active and 
enterprising merchant in town from the close of the war of the Revo- 
lution until the Commercial disasters of 1807, when he was prostrated 
with most of the merchants of the place. He lived at first at the 
junction of Federal and Middle streets, afterwards he built the large 
house at the foot of India street to which he removed, and where he 
died August 26, 1821, aged sixty-four; his widow died in 1823, aged 
sixty. He was connected in business at several periods with his 
brother in law, Daniel Tucker, his son in law Duncan and last with 
his son William. His wife was daughter of Agreen Crabtree, of 
Mount Desert, and sister of Capt. Wm. Crabtree, the first of the family 
who settled in this town. Her sister Lydia married Capt. Daniel 
Tucker, and another sister Susannah, Jonathan Leavitt. Capt. 
William Crabtree, the elder, married Hannah Bagley, by whom he 
had several children, of whom are Capt. William, a merchant in 
Savannah, Georgia ; and Eleazer, commander of the steamship 
Hermann. He was for many years an enterprising shipmaster, 
from which business he retired to a farm in Falmouth, where he died 
an old man, a few years since. Agreen Crabtree with his brothers 
William and Eleazer, came from England and went first to Attleboro*, 
Mass. Thence Agreen's sons William and Eleazer, came here. 

1740. 

Januarxj 16, Every body expects in the spring a French, as there 
is now a Spanish war, 

21. I have not been abroad a week day for this eleven weeks ; 
yet I have constantly gone out on Sabbath days. 

25. We have had a close week with our children, all having the 
quincy as well as others of us. It seems to be going through the 
country. 

Feh'ttary 4, A soldier was frozen to death. 

22. I have been very ill and full of pain with a bad cough. 
March. [Nothing material is recorded this month.] 

Aj^ril 21. Orders are come to Boston for 5000 soldiers to go to 
join the English forces in the West Indies, and are thought to try for 
the Havana. 

no. T rode {q Stroudwater to talk with Mr. Slenimon?- who is 



92 smith's journal. 

offended with my sermon to the Irish. Mr. Frost aUo made known 
that he is offended with me for some passage in a sermon which he 
thought reflected on liis taking Haskell's house, &c. ' 

May 28. Sailed in Capt. Fox's brig for Boston. 

Ju7ie 10. Got home. 

28. There is strong expectation of war ; two French squadrons 
with one Spanish one, having sailed, as it is thought for the West 
Indies, and the Indians are surly and threaten a war. 

30. I heard yesterday that Mr. President Holyoke buried his 
wife and two children with the throat distemper. 

July 3. About this time we had a terrible alarm made by Ares, 
Gorhamtown. 

17. We had a Parish meeting about receiving the new meeting 
house. I was at prayer. A sad opposition there was, but yet by a 
majority voted. ^ 

20. We first met in the new meeting house an exceeding full 
assembly. 

1. Siemens was an Irish immigrant, who settled in Stroudwater. His son 
William married Catherine Porterfield in 1734, and their descendants reside still in 
Stroudwater. 

Frost's name was Charles; he came from New Castle, near Portsmouth, N. H., 
and was Clerk to Col. Westbrook. He married Hannah Jackson, of Kittery, in 
1738, by whom he had five children, viz : Abigail, married to Daniel Epes; 
William, who died suigle in 1791 ; Jane, Andrew Pepperell and Charles; the 
latter was born in 1755. He died January 4, 1756, and was then Representative 
from the town to the General Court. His house was on the hill just East of 
Stroudwater bridge, on the spot where Dexter Brewer resides, in a house built by 
Andrew P. the son of Charles. He was a man of considerable property and 
influence. 

2. The settlement on the Neck was principally below the new Meeting house; 
there were not more than seven or eight houses above it at that time. In winter, it 
was frequently difficult to get to the house on Sunday on account of the snow. The 
house which the Parish voted to accept was quite small, and without steeple or 
porches, but still an improvement on the old one which stood on the corner of 
Middle and King streets. The opposition it encountered came chiefly from persons 
residing at New Casco; Nathaniel Jones and twenty-one others, signed a written 
protest against receiving the house from the contributors. 

It remained unfinished for many years. The view we exhibit of it, represents it 
as it appeared after the various improvements it received in a succession of years up 
to the time of its final removal in 1825, to give place to the stone house which now 
occupies the same spot The western end was not clapbboarded ixntil 1756 , m 




FIRST PARISH MEETING-HOUSE 

n40.--I825. 



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24.. 1 Inul three sheep killed by a woU'. Tliere were seven otherii 
kiUeil. 

28. A watch has been kept on the Neck ever since Ares' news. 

30. Tlie church kept a day of Fasting and Prayer on account ol 
the spread of Quakerism. Mr. Jcifrey and myself prayed, A. M. 
Mr. Thompson preached Mr. Allen and Mr. Lord prayed and Mr. 
Willard preached P. M. ' 

31. Our pews were appropriated. 

August 3. ( Sunday. ) An exceeding full congregation and 
communion ; and yet I reckoned more than sixty heads of families* 
that were absent, and many of their whole families Avith them. 

1758, a bell weighing eight hundred pounds was procuied from England, which also 
met with great opposition, especially from those who did not live on the Neck, and 
could not hear its summons : it was erected on a frame separate from the main 
building; this was united to the house in 1762. In 1759, the house was enlarged 
by inserting twelve feet in length on each side of the pulpit. In 1760, the tower 
was built vvliich was next year crowned with the tall spire which for sixty-four 
years survived the storm of war and the elements : and finally after the war of the 
Revolution it was for the first time painted : it was taken down in 1825. 

The Old meeting house on the corner of Middle and King streets, after the 
adoption of the New, was used for town and parish meetings, and occasionally for 
preaching; and for a Court house until 1774, when it was removed to Hampshire 
street to make way for a new County Court house : it perished in the conflagration 
of 1775. 

1. The first meeting for worship which was established by the Quakers in this 
State, was in Elliot in 1730; in 1743, a few families in this town having adopted 
their peculiarities, a meeting was then established here. James Winslow who 
came from Plymouth prior to 1728, and lived on the Presumpscot river, was the 
first who joined the Society, and was soon followed by some of his own family and 
a number of others, who sought the gratification of tiieir religious sensibilities in a 
more rigid simplicity of form and manners, than then prevailed among us. In 
1751, a Monthly meeting was established in Falmouth, and in 1752, a Meeting 
house was built near the residence of James Winslow. Accessions were made to 
the Society from time to time, and travelling preachers from England, New Jersey 
and other parts, occasionally visited our quiet village, and greatly disturbed the 
pious feelings of our staid ancestors, who were shocked at any attempts to be more 
puritan than they were themselves. In 1777, by a return made to the General 
Court by the Selectmen, the number of male quakers in the town, over sixteen 
years of age, was sixty-four. The brick meeting house on the corner of School and 
Federal streets was completed in 1796. James Winslow died in 1773 ; hi» 
rhildren were Nathan, Benjamin, James, Job, and daughters married to Hatevil 
Hall and James Torrey, who all jomcd the Socielv of FruMids. 



smith's journal. 95 

10. (Sunday.) A full meeting. Mr. Crocker preaclied for me. 
Capt. Jones and Mr. Wilson have not been to meeting in our new 
house, and thei'e is an unhappy uneasiness about it. 

September 29. I sat out for York. 

October 4. Got home. 

5. (Sunday.) I preached extempore A. M. about Mr. Whitfield. ' 
t' NovembeY 14. My wife was delivered of a daughter. 

16. (Sunday.) We baptized our daughter by the name of 
Sarah. ^ 

December 3. There has been a great freshet that has done a great 
deal of damage. 

21. I rode to Saco, lodged with my father at Smith's, who 
was forced out of his own lodgings by vast quantities of ice 
which jambed and raised the water eighteen inches higher than his 
bedstead. 

[I might have mentioned before, that Mr. Smith used to keep a 
particular account of the presents made him. These appear to have 
been very numerous and show the regard his people had for him. 
Indeed the connexion with them seems to have been a happy one on 
both sides.] 

1741. 

January 2. I was over the ice from Capt. Moody's beach, straight 
to Mr. Cushing's to get corn. 

3. Our Mr. Stephen Jones (we hear) is on shore at Cape Cod 
with fourteen hundred bushels of corn. 

7. I rode with Master Hodge to North Yarmouth ; ^ we rode round 
the Cove and turned down to Mr, Norris' across Presumpscot river, 
and rode from thence all the way on the ice which was exceeding hard 

1. Rev. George Whitefield was at this time in Boston, where he arrived in 
September, and was producing great excitement. He did not at this time come 
further into Maine than York. 

2. Sarah, his youngest daughter ; she married Deacon Richard Codman in 
1763, and died in 1827, the last survivor of his children. 

3. The master Hodge here spoken of, was Nicholas Hodge who then kept the 
grammar school on the Neck, while pursuing his studies in Divinity with Mr. 
Smith. He was born in Newbury, 1719, graduated at H. C. 1739. In 1737, 
he kept the school here for the first time, and was again employed for three years in 
1739. He preached for Mr. Smith in 1743 and died the same year, aged twenty- 
four. 



96 smith's journal. 

and secure. We were not tliree quarters of an liour from Mr. Norris' 
to Mr. Loring's door. 

10. There has been for some time a melancholy scarcity of corn. 

1 1. Sunday. I rode over the river and changed with Mr. Allen. 

14. Melancholy tidings we have of vessels lost in the storm last 
month. 

15. Twenty-nine -vessels came out of Holmes' Hole chiefly laden 
with provisions. We hear seventeen of them were lost the next day. 

[There is want of further journal this year, until the montli of 
May, and after that month to the end of the year.] 

May 3. We hear there is a famine in Ireland and an universal 
scarcity. 

4. Pretty many families on the Penobscot live wholly on the clam 
banks. 

9. The fish have but now struck in; a great relief to people 
almost perishing. 

14. Mr. Jones came in with nine hundred bushels of corn. 

15. Mr. Jones sells his corn at 15s. a bushel. It is 14s. in 
Boston. People groan terribly at the price. 

16. A most melancholy time. God remember us in mercy and 
be better to us than our fears. 

I have been so fortunate as to find a portion of the missing leaves 
of this year, which I copy entire. The month is not added to the 
first page ; but I suppose it to be May. W. 

" 1. Fair, hot, sunshine but easterly wind. I saw ova ■patch of 
snotv on the Neck. 

2. Raw, rainy. 

3. Rainy Sabbath — especially in showers. 

4. Cloudy, but warm and looks like clearing up. Hitherto no 
ploughing nor any prospect of it unless God suddenly gives us steady 
fair weather ; the ground being so wet and full of water. The grass 
seems to be appearing finely. 

The Neck was cleared and fenced — (Munjoy's Hill.) 
There have been two or three pleasant mornings of late, but cool 
P.M. 

8. Fresh South-west wind and pretty cold. 

9. Cloudy with raw Easterly winds ; a melancholy time yet. 



smith's journal. 97 

There is now a bank of snow on the front of the Neck, though 
none no where else for some time. 

10. Pleasant morning, but cloudy the rest of the day. 

11. Rains hard. 

12. Pleasant warm day. 

13. Sun shines, but cold southerly wind. 

God has been wonderfully better than our fears, with regard to our 
creatures ; few have died — I think as few as any other year ; though 
in Rhode Island and other places, they have lost half their sheep and 
many neat cattle. 

This week our people have planted some, but depend on next week. 

17. Cloudy, raw Sabbath, and P. M. it rained, and all night. 

18. I don't think ever more rain (since the Flood) fell in one day ; 
the o-round is every where one universal pond, and bridges are, many, 
carried away. 

19. It rained all day and night, though nothing so hard as 
yesterday. 

20. Ceased raining, and P. M. fair and warm. The grass grows 
well ; there is fine feed. 

21. Easterly weather and not fair nor hot ; people at Scarboro' 
and other dry towns have planted, but wish they had not ; expecting 
their seed will rot. 

22. Cloudy and rained a little, but P. M. grew warmer. No 
ploughing this week neither. 

23. This was indeed a hot summer day. Thanks to God for it, 
though late. Now summer breaks in at once. 

24. It was extraordinarily hot ; I sweat much a preaching P. M. 

25. Very hot last night, and to-day again. 

Corn is rotten in the ground every where, and a pretty deal that 
was planted was not fit for seed. 

The Cherry trees do but now bloom ; the Apple trees do just begin ; 
as fine a grass spring as can be. 

30. Ever since this day se'ennight has been hot summer like 
weather. 

" Jwie 1. I sat out for Boston ; lodged at Smith's ; * I prayed with 
Mrs. Downing. 

2. Proceeded with my father ; lodged at the Bank. ^ 

1. Smith's was at Saco. 2- Portsmouth. 

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98 smith's journal, 

3. Lodged at Ipswich. 

4. Got to Boston to dinner ; was out P. M. to get cloth for coat. 

6. Dined at Cookson's ; sent my horse home by Mr. Wait. 

7. I was at meeting at Dr. Colman's ; after the public service of 
the day, I preached at the work house ; I dined at brother's. 

I had a new Coat which cost £29. 

8. Mr. Cooper was to see me ; I was to wait on Dr. Colman. ' 

9. I preached evening lecture for Mr. Cooper. . 

10. I dine for the most part at home, because of my father's 
company. 

11. Heard Mr. Tailor preach weekly lecture. I preached in the 
evening at one Collins' ; I dined with Mr. Tyng. 

12. Heard Mr. Chauncey preach Mr. Sewall's evening lecture. - 

13. I had a great measure of health in Boston, except a day or 
two I got cold. 

14. I preached A. M. for Dr. Colman to great acceptance; I dined 
with the Dr. ; supped at Mr. Walley's and read my notes. 

15. I waited on the Governor who treated me very kindly, and 
who is in good temper — having news that he is confirmed in his 
place. ^ 

16. Heard Mr. Cooper preach the evening lecture. 

I preached to great acceptance in Boston and had much respect 
shown me ; thanks to God for all the mercy shown me this journey. 

17. I came away from Boston, mounted at Winnissimit * about 
eleven ; got to Newbury in the evening, though very ill and overdone ; 
had my father's horse. 

18. I proceed to York, having stopped several hours at the Bank 
and dined ; I lodged at one Sewall's. 

1. Dr. Benjamin Colman antl William Cooper were both ministers of Brattle 
street Church— the former settled 1699, died 1747; the latter settled 1716, died 
1743. 

2. Dr. Joseph Sewall, settled at Old South, 1713, died 1769. Dr. Charles 
Chauncey settled in the first Church 1727, died 1787. 

3. This was Wm. Burnet, who was unfortunately cherishing a delu.sive hope 
At this very time his place had been given to his successor, Wni. Slmley. 

1. Chelsea Ferry. 



smith's journal. 09 

19. A long Court this is like to prove ; there being about thirty 
actions that were continued from last Court.* 

20. I lodged at Mr. Moody's. 

21. I preached P. M. and in the evening before the Court. 

22. Mr. Fox went from Falmouth to Boston. 

23. Our great case (for near four thousand acres of land) came on 
this morning and was not finished till between nine and ten at night. " 

24. The Jury brought in against us. I set out for home about 
one ; stopt an hour and eat at Mr. Jefferds, and got to Saco sometime 
before dark ; lodged at Smith's. 

25. I got home to dinner, having stopt to see Col. Westbrook, 
who I heard on the road was dying. 

26. I never met with so prosperous a journey ; every particular 
circumstance throughout the whole, was just as I would have had it, 
except losing our case and barrel of sugar. 

27. I rode to see and prayed with the Colonel, who is better 
again. 

28. An exceeding full meeting indeed ; I had great assistance. 

29. I prayed with Mrs. Millet ; was also to see others. 

30. I had news yesterday that Mr. Shirley is certainly appointed 
Governor. ^ 

[The next entry we find is under August.] 

August 10. We have had more hot weather the summer past 
than was ever known here ; a great many hot nights as well as days. 

11. Pleasant day. It is now a dry time, no water in the roads, 
and rain much wanted. 

12. Extremely hot. 

13. It rained to-night. 

14. The weather changed with yesterday for the cooler. 
16. Cloudy easterly wind, but comfortable. 

1. This was the Superior Court; the judges were Benjamin Lynde, C. J. from 
1729 to 1744, Paul Dudley 1718, C. J. 1745 to 1752. Jonathan Remington 1733 
to 1744. Richard Saltonstall 1736 to 1755. Stephen Sewall 1739, C. J. 1752. 

2. This, 1 think, was for land at Capisic claimed under the Munjoy title. 

3. Wm. Shirley. He came from England about six years before, and settled in 
Boston in the practice of law. He was superseded by Gov. Pownal in 1756, and 
died in Roxbury in 1771. He was an efficient and acceptable Chief Magistrate. 
Dr. Shirley Irving, who formerly lived in this town, was his grandson through hi.^ 
youngest daughter Maria, and tlu-ough him the family is continued in the country. 



100 smith's journal. 

17. A great deal of rain fell last night and cloudy easterly wind 
to-day. 

19. The four days past very raw cold easterly weather, just as the 
same days were last year. 

20. The weather changed and came on hot. 

21. 22. Very exceeding hot days ; happy for the Indian corn. 
23. This was much hotter day than the preceding, and hot night ; 

there has been little or no wind the three days past. 

Extremely hot continually every day and night all this while, and 
no wind at all has blown. 

30. Exceeding hot Sabbath, people dying almost with the heat. 
From the 25th of the month there has been such a spell of hot 
weather as that there has been not only nothing like it the summer 
past, but I think the whole sixteen years I have been in Falmouth. 
Hot weather constantly. 

September 1. 1 rode to Biddeford and attended another lecture of 
Mr. Rogers ; came back as far as Black Point, and lodged \Ai\\ Mr. 
Lorhig at Mr. Front's. 

2. Came home. Mr. Tompson and his brother Dr. Tompson and 
Mr. Chandler dined here. ' 

3. 1 preached extempore at Mrs. Millet's— had great assistance 
and preached a good sermon. 

4. I spent a day in whitewashing a room. 

5. The change of the weather much aflects me, so that I feel 
again as I used to do. I have reason to take notice with thankfulness 
to God, the wonderful measure of health I have had the summer 
past. 

6. Not a very full meeting 

9. I was at the funeral of Mrs. Millet/ who dropped away 
suddenly. 

1. Rev. Wm. Tompson, of Scarboro' and his brother Dr. Edward, of 
Haverhill. 

2. The early settlers of this name were Thomas and John, who were both 
Proprietors in the common land. Thomas died January 21, 1730, aged 59, leavuig 
a widow Martha. John's wife was Bethya, by whom he had Martha, born 1728, 
and Bathsheba born 1731. Tliomas Millet had taken a house lot on the Neck 
previous to 1722, on Congress street, which was confirmed to him in 1724; he was 
probably one of Major Moody's soldiers. John received grants in 1727; one was a 
house lot on the Neck. 



smith's journal. 101 

10, Very full lecture at Mrs. Thomes's ; I preached a funeral 
sermon on Mrs. Millet. 

12. I have been very close a studying this whole week. 

14. I sat out from home about noon ; met with Mr. Loring at 
Mr. Frost's ; rode to Mr. Willard's, lodged at Davis'. 

15. We attended a Fast ; Mr. Tompson and Mr. Jeffords prayed, 
and Mr. Loring preached A. M. P. M. Mr. Allen and Mr. Willard 
prayed and I preached. 

IG. Rode to Arundel and attended the ordination of Mr. Hovey. ' 
Mr. Tompson began with prayer, Mr. Willard preached, Mr. 
Newmarch gave the charge, Mr, Jefferds the Right Hand and Mr. 
Moody closed with prayer. 

I rode to Wells in the evening. 

17. Atttended a Fast at Wells ; Mr. Willard began with prayer, 
Mr. Loring preached, Mr. Tompson closed A. M. ; Mr. Allen and 
Mr. Jefferds prayed and I preached P. M., and was more than two 
hours in sermon, preached extempore all the application, had great 
help. 

18. We loitered and came away late, dined late at the Ware 
house ^ upon Robin's entertainment ; was forced to stop and lodge at 
Mr. Tompson's. 

19. Rode home A. M. with Mr. Loring and Mr. Hodge. 

20. A very thin meeting. 

21. Mr. Allen with Mr. White' and his son dined here. 

22. I was about town in several families. 

23. I rode with Mr. White and wife to Mr, Noice's on the Cove 
and dined there. 

24. Mr, White preached an evening lecture at my house ; it was 
very full, 

27, Mr. White preached ; a very full meeting ; people were 
pleased with the preaching; Mr, Gooding and one Capt, Robins 
dined here, 

28, I was A. M. with Mr. White at Mr. Allen's, returned and 
dined with my wife at Dr. Moody's. 

1. Rev. Jolm Hovey, probably the graduate of H. C. 1725. He was dismissed 
in 1768. 

2. Probably his father's Truck house at Saco. 

3. Rev. Mr. White, of Gloucester, Cape Ann. 



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29. Mr. White went away P. M. I walked with my wife to I. 
Brackett's. 

30. I rode with my wife to see Elder Knight, Doughty, Clark and 
Barber, and at night I was called to Mrs. Stephen Jones, who it was 
said was a dying ; I have for near a fortnight prayed Avith her every 
day. 

Here we are obliged to part again with Mr. Smith's manuscript, 
the journal for the remainder of the year being lost. We have 
published the leaf we had, entire, that the precise character of his 
daily entries may be seen. 

The extracts in the text under May, of the first edition, do not 
harmonize with those from the manuscript above, which leads me to 
doubt whether they belong to this year. 

1742. 

January 2. I got home from a journey to Piscataqua, where I 
have been to observe and affect myself with the great work of God's 
grace. 

29. I rode with my wife and preached a Lecture at Mr. Frost's, 
where the work broke out. 

31. The blessedest Sabbath Falmouth ever saw.' 
February 19. My father died last night. 

March 12. I sat out with my brother on a journey to Boston. 

Ajjril 3. Returned from Boston. 

9. Had ten persons to see me about joining with the church. ~ 

1. This excitement was occasioned by the visit of Mr. Whitefield to New 
England. He did not at that time come so far East as Falmouth. But there was a 
great revival at Portsmouth where he preached for Rev. Mr. Shurtleff. Tiie 
lecture referred to was at Charles Frost's, at Stroudwater. 

2. Mr. Smith had much to cheer and animate him in his work at this time. 
On the 11th of April, ten persons were admitted to the Church, probably the same 
who are noticed in the text ; on May 30, sixteen were admitted, and August 29, 
fifteen more. The whole number during the year was forty-nine; which is more 
than has been admitted to that Church in any one year since hs formation m 1727. 
There was an unusual excitement and revival in religion throughout the country at 
that time. The whole number of admissions during Mr. Smith's ministry from 
1727 to 1795, a period of sixty-eight years, was four hundred and fifty-nine, 
showmg an average of sLx and three quarters a year. For several years during the 
Revolutionary war, and the last years of his ministry, the records show the recep- 
tion of only one a year. The last quarter of the last century and the fiist few years 



smith's journal. 103 

May 19. We had a town meeting to see if the people would 
receive the £1600 the General Court voted us. By reason of 
opposition from Purpoodock, nothing was done. 

26. I rode this morning to Black Point, and with Mr. Allen, 
carried on a Fast, which was to pray for the revival of the great work. 

27. The people voted to-day to receive the money. [It is not 
said what the money was voted for.] 

Jtme 14. I sat out on a journey to Boston with my brother. 

17, Got to Boston. 

July 10. Got home. 

12. People have been much dissatisfied with my leaving them so 
long. Mr. Bewal, by illness, disappointed me. * 

Aicgust. [The page of his Journal for this month is a blank. A 
very singular neglect.] 

31. I rode to Gorhamtown and preached, and had great assistance. 

September. [A full page again, giving, until the 14th, an account 
of a trip to Boston.] 

October 1. My dear wife died between two and three P. M. 
[Some account of her death and character, and of Mr. Smith's 
meditations on the afflictive event, here follow.] 

3. Sunday. Mr. Allen preached here, and after service we 
attended the funeral of my wife. 

November 2. Beef is now sold m this town at 9d per pound, and 
other provisions extravagantly dear. 

December 2S. I preached to young people in the old Meeting 
house. 

[The journal for this year is less filled than any of the preceding 

of the present, was a period of religious torpor and indifference in tiie Congrega- 
tional Churches, during which the Methodist and Baptist denominations were 
establishing themselves in popular favor, and gathering the harvest from the 
religious field; they, in a measure, reproduced the excitements which had followed 
the preaching and labors of Whitefield. 

Tiie number of admissions to the Church of the First Parish from the death of 
Mr. Smith to 1847, is tlu-ce hundred and forty-seven, giving an average of nearly 
six and a quarter a year. The total admissions to that period were seven hundred 
and eighty-six ; and the average, six and a half a year for a period of one hundred 
and twenty years. 

1. Rev. Samuel Buell, a celebrated popular preacher in Connecticut : he 
graduated at Yale College m 1741, and died in 1798. 



l()4 SMITH S JOURNAL. 

years, but it contains the record of events tkat were interesting to 
Mr. Smith. The death of a sister, father, wife and child.] 

1743. 

January 23. Sunday. I have been in a poor distracted frame, 
this and the preceding Sabbaths;' lost all courage and ready to 
give up. 

February 1. I sat out on a journey for Bostor^. 

19. Got home. 

March 15. Parish meeting; they raised my salary to two 
hundred and sixty-five pounds. " 

29. I sat out on a journey to Piscataqua. 

[He seems at this time to have been lookmg out for another wife.] 

April 13. Got home. 

18. It pleased God to enable me to such a behaviour at the Bank* 
as that I had extraordinary acceptance, and met with a great deal of 
acceptance and respect. 

May 23. I sat out for Boston with Mr. Crocker. 

26. Got to Boston, There was a sad division in the Convention 
of Ministers at Boston. Dr. Chauncey and others in opposition to 
the late work of God in the land. ^ They obtained a vote against 

1. How different his feelings now from the enthusiasm and excitement which 
anunated him in April last. The religious interest of last year had greatly fallen 
off; the admissions to the Church being only six this year, and two of those from 
other Churches. 

2. This was no doubt to meet the depreciation of paper money, of which it 
required at this time thnty shillings to purchase an ounce of silver : the salary now 
voted would not exceed two hundred dollars in silver. 

* The town of Portsmouth or Piscataqua was then called " The Bank." F. 

3. This may be a suitable occasion to speak of one of the most interesting 
occurrences in the religious liistory of our country, the preaching of Whitefield 
and the revival which followed. George Whitefield in 1738, was sent to Georgia 
by the Proprietors of that Province to take charge of a religious society in Frederica. 
He was a minister of the Church of England and then not twenty years old. He 
returned to England in a few months to take Priest's orders, and came back the 
next year. On this occasion he visited Pennsylvania and New York and preached 
to crowded assemblies with great applause, producing an enthusiasm never felt 
before in this country. His farewell sermon in New York was preached in the 
fields to ten thousand persons, and he preached every day, with a zeal and 
ardor that knew no fatigue and no abatement. One of his admirers speaks of his 
doctrines as follows : " He loudly proclaims all men by nature to be under sin, and 



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the disorders, &;c. thereby expressly owning the work, which puts tlie 

obnoxious to the wrath and curse of God ; he niaintams the absolute necessity of 
supernatural grace to bring men out of this state. He asserts the Righteousness of 
Christ to be the alone cause of justification of a sinner; that this is received by 
Faith; that this Faith is the gift of God. He denies that good works have any 
share in our justification; that they do mdeed justify our Faith and flow from it, 
but Christ's external righteousness imputed to us, and his inherent righteousness 
wrought in us, is the only cause of man's salvation. He asserts the absolute 
necessity of a new birth; that this new production is solely the work of God's 
blessed Spirit." Some or all of these doctrines with varied illustrations and in 
many cases with startling and terrific imagery he pressed into service on every 
occasion. 

In September, 1740, Mr. Whitefield for the first time arrived in Boston and 
travelled as fiir East as York, makmg the same triumphal progress that had 
attended his preaching in other places. The Churches were overflowed duruig the 
four or five weeks he remained in New England; people hung round the windows 
and doors to catch his inspiring eloqueijce, and as Mr. Smith says of himself, to be 
afliected by the work of God's grace. He preached also on the Common in Boston 
and in the open fields, and so great an excitement was produced and so contagious 
its influence that many auditors broke out in groans and shouts and loud calls for 
mercy; some rolled on the ground, some fainted, and scenes of confusion were often 
produced, which made sober minded and judicious persons grieve. 

These disorders and the short lived and unsatisfactory results of the excitement in 
many of those who were most highly affected by it, led to great complamts, and 
produced the state of feeling to which Mr. Smith alludes in the text. The Rev. 
Mr. Holyoke, President, and Dr. Wigglesworth, Professor of Divinity in Harvard 
College, as well as Dr. Chauncy, Pastor of the First Church in Boston, protested in 
pamplilets against these disorders, and itinerant preaching generafly. The result of 
which was found, in Mr. Whitefield's case, to produce alienations and separations 
in regular parishes. Dr. Chauncy expressed himself very strongly on the subject of 
itinerant preaching. He said " he did not think any good would come from one 
who played the Bishop in another man's parish." Many persons wholly 
unqualified for the duty, went about preaching and exhorting, and caused the 
wildest disorders. 

Not only the clergy, but the laity throughout the country, entertained diflTerent 
opinions in regard to the labors of Mr. Whitefield, and the efi'ect it produced in the 
community. 

In this divided state of public sentiment, a number of ministers in Boston and 
vicinity invited a Convention of the clergy to be held in Boston in July, 1743, " To 
consider whether they are not called to give an open and conjunct testunony to an 
event so surprising and gracions (the late revival); as well as against those errors 
in doctrine and disorders in practice, which through the permitted agency of Satan 
have attended it." 
^ The Convention was held agreeably to the call and was fully attended. The 

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106 smith's journal. 

ministers on tlie otlier aide into a great ferment ; the people tlirough 



result of their deliberations was embodied in the report of an able Committee, of 
which Rev. Dr. Sewall, of Boston, was Chairman, which was l\xvorablc to the 
general operations of the revival; it boars testimony "that there has been a 
happy and remarkable revival of religion in many parts of this land, through an 
uncommon divine influence." They however declare that extravagancies and 
irregularities have accompanied it; and object to " laymen's invading the muiiste- 
rial office, and under pretence of exhorting, to set up preaching. That ministers 
do not invade the province of others, and m ordinary cases preach in another's 
Parish without his knowledge or against his consent." 

This report was adopted and issued by sixty-eight ministers, of whom three 
were from Maine, viz : Samuel Moody and Samuel Chandler, of the First and 
Second Churches in York, and Mr. Smith, of Falmouth. 

The other ministers in Maine sent in their attestation to the .same view, wliicli 
as it expresses the tone of feeling then prevailing among the clergy here, I have 
copied the whole of it except the formal part.-?. 

" Inasmuch as it incontestibly appears to us from what we have seen among 
ourselves and in other places, that by an extraordinary divine influence there bath 
been an happy revival of religion in our land ; we dare not but publicly speak out 
our grateful sense thereof to the honor of the free and sovereign grace of God. 

But whereas at the same time there have been great complaints of prevailing 
errors in doctrine and disorders in practice, such as a denying the doctrine of the 
divine decrees, justification by faith alone, irresistible grace in the conversion of 
smners ; and also the asserting that secret impulses on the minds of persons, 
without due regard to the written word of God, may be depended on as the rule of 
their conduct : that none are converted but such as luiow themselves to be so, and 
can tell the time when; that assurance is of the essence of saving faith; and that 
sanctification is no evidence of justification; with other the like Arminian, Antino- 
mian, and Famalistical tenets and opinions; all which we judge are contrary to the 
pure doctrines of the gospel. And as to disorders in practice ; such as private 
persons of no education without any regular call taking upon them to preach the 
word of God ; the ordaining and separating any person to the work of the evan- 
gelical ministry at large, and without a special relation to any particular charge, to 
enter into the districts of settled ministers : Persons assuming the prerogative of 
God to look into and judge the hearts of others, censuring and condemning their 
brethren and especially their ministers, as Pharisees, Arminians, blind and uncon- 
verted, &c., and upon these pretended grounds, making an actual separation from 
their respective pastors, though they openly disavow the above mentioned errors, 
and are regular in their lives. All which errors and disorders being of pernicious 
consequence, as tending to obscure the glorious work of God, bring it into disre- 
pute and obstruct the progress of it, we would in like manner bear our joint and 
solemn testimony against." 

This was adopted " at an Association meeting, at Scarborough, June 23, 1743," 
and signed by the names added to Mr. Freeman's note to ne.\t page. Rev. Jere- 



smith's journal. 107 

the country are also universally divided, and in the most unhappy 
temper. The opposition is exceeding virulent and mad. 

iiiiah Wise, of Berwick, and Rev. John Rogers, of Kittery, sent separate letters 
su the same spirit. These embraced all the settled ministers then in Maine. 

But while these excitements were approved by many through the community, 
there were many who looked upon the extraordinary excitement, as fraught with 
serious evils to the cause of religion. 

Wherever such doubts and fears were expressed, Mr. Whitefield showed no 
quarter. And for this reason he attacked the College with no little severity, which 
led to a sharp controversy in which the President, Professor of Divinity and others, 
iu vindicating the College, denounced the cause and effects of Mr. Whitefield's 
conduct and preaching. 

Henry Flynt who had been more than forty years tutor in the College, and was 
a man of learning and piety, thus speaks in his diary, of Whitefield : " Very 
popular and affecting in his delivery and address ; not rational or argumentative ; 
nor useth much Scripture in confirmation of his pomts. He appears to be a good 
man, and sincerely desirous to do good to the souls of sinners ; is very apt to judge 
hardly, and censure in the severest terms, those that differ from his scheme. He 
seems to be a man not much acquainted with books, and indeed he has had but 
little time for it, which makes me wonder at his positive and dogmatical way of 
expressing himself in some things. He has a good deal of action, by lifting up and 
spreading out his hands in prayer and preaching, and his action well enough suits 
Uis zeal." 

The controversy continued several years : in 1744 the President, Professors, 
Tutors and Hebrew Instructor of Harvard College published their " testunony 
against the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield and his conduct," in which they 
denounce hun as an enthusiast, a censorious, uncharitable person and a deluder 
of the people." Whitefield replied, denying some things, justifying others, and 
expressing regret that he had " published his private uiformations, though from 
credible persons." Dr. Wigglesworth and President Holyoke both rejoined, 
repelling Mr. Whitefield's charges and censuring his attack on the College, as 
unwarranted by facts, unprovoked and calumnious. 

Long before the controversy ended, the revival out of which it grew, had wholly 
passed off, leavuig a melancholy waste; and the state of religious feeling became 
far more torpid and hopeless than it had been before the excitement. The Rev. 
Thomas Prince, who was Scribe to the Convention and a zealous promoter of the 
revival, thus speaks of the condition of religious action in Boston in 1744 : "The 
sovereign Spirit in his awakening influence in the unconverted, an* his enlivenmg 
efficacy in the hopefully renewed, in this town, has seemed these two last years, in 
a gradual and awful manner to withdraw. For a twelve month, I have rarely 
heard the cry of any new ones, Wliat shall I do to be saved 1 But few are now 
added to our churches and the heavenly shower seems to be over." 

The venerable Nathaniel Appleton, Pastor of the Church at Cambridge, in giving 
[us concurreuce to the proceedings of the Convention in July, 1743, says ; " What 



108 smith's journal. 

June 3. I came from Boston to the Islands. 

I look upon as matter of lamentation at this day is, that those convictions as to 
great numbers in these parts of the land, have died away without leaving any good 
etfect upon them. And that through the wickedness of men, and the subtiity of 
Satan, more errors, delusions and disorders have crept into some places, and much 
of the religious concern is degenerating into controversy.^^ 

On the whole it may well admit of doubt whether the great and wide spread 
religious excitement of that day was productive of valuable and substantial fruits. 
Many were undoubtedly raised from a state of indifference and sin to virtue and 
holiness; but more it is to be feared were made more indifferent; and many others 
who had partaken of the most glowing warmth of the excitement, relapsed into a 
condition even worse than indifference. 

But another result was revealed by this unusual religious action, if not in a 
measure produced by it, and that was an extensive defection not only among the 
people, but the clergy themselves, from the tenets and faith of Calvin. 

Whitefield and his followers in New England maintained to their full extent the 
doctrine of Calvuiism : they stood upon the outer limit of this creed ; the nature of 
which may be seen by the propositions put forth at this time by its great champion, 
Jonathan Edwards. He says : " We are creatures, infinitely sinful and abomi- 
nable in God's sight, and by our infinite guilt have brought ourselves into such 
wicked and deplorable circumstances, that all our righteousnesses are nothing and 
ten thousand times worse than nothing." He represents the natural enmity of 
mankind to God as " without any mixture or the least spark of love," " as full of 
malice as hell is full of fire;" " which strikes at the life of God." He says the 
trial of this enmity has been made, " and what has been the event? Why, when 
once God became man, and came down to dwell here among such vipers as fallen 
men, they hated him and persecuted him, and never left him, till they had 
embrewed their hands m liis blood. ' ' 

The maimer of preaching by which Edwards and Whitefield and that class of 
preachers produced their alarming and terrific efiects, may be seen by another 
quotation from Edwards. " Hell torments will not be annihilation, but a sensible 
misery absolutely eternal. The world will probably be converted into a great lake 
or liquid globe of fire; a vast ocean of fire, in which the wicked shall be over- 
whelmed, which will always be in tempest, in which they shall be tost to and fro, 
having no rest day or night, vast waves or billows of fire continually rolling over 
their heads," — "of which they shall forever be full of a quick sense within and 
without ; their heads, their eyes, their tongues, their hands, their feet, their loins, 
and their vitals, shall forever be full of glowing, melting fire, fierce enough to melt 
the very rocks and elements; and also they shall eternally be full of the most quick 
and lively sense to feel the torments," — " not for one minute, nor for one day, noi 
for one year, nor for one age, nor for two ages, nor for an hundred ages, nor for ten 
thousand of millions of ages, one after another, but for ever and ever, without any 
end at all, and never, never be delivered." (Edward^s Works, vol. 8, p. 166. 
Who cannot perceive the eflcct such descriptions set forth \\ itli tlic eloquence 



smith's journal. U)U 

4. Came to sail. 

5. (Sunday.) Got home to meeting, as they began singing, A. 
M. Mr. Hodge preached. 

14. Mr. Waldo came to town with an execution agamst Col. 
Westbrook, for £10,500 and charges. * 

15. I catechised the children on the Neck — about seventy. 

22. I rode with my sister to a minister's meeting at Scarborough ; 

and ardor of conviction, must have upon an excitable and highly excited hnagina- 
tion. Who can wonder at the irrepressible feeling, the groans and contortions which 
followed such a glowing and terrific picture ? And who that reflects upon the 
subject must not also arrive at the conclusion, that when a mind so excited, settles 
into composure, it will look with disgust and aversion, instead of rational conviction, 
upon such wild and horrific representations. 

This had been the prevailing sentiment in New England from its first settlement, 
and no one iiad been so bold as to gainsay it. But now when the doctrine was 
carried out into so broad a statement and result, learned men, clergymen and 
laymen, began openly to express their doubts and then to deny the system, and 
hence arose throughout the land, that large body of persons, which was denomi- 
nated by the High Calvinists, as Arminians, Arians, Pelagians, Socinians, &c. 
Among these Dr. Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew, of Boston, took the 
lead. Mayhew who was Pastor of the West Church, and a very learned man, 
was no doubt an Arian, or inclining strongly to those views; he stood at one 
extreme in that day and tlie High Calvinists at another, but between them, all the 
way along, were scattered men of liberal views, who, not denying the Trinity 
and some other of the Calvinistic tenets, were firmly opposed to other parts of 
that scheme. The government of Harvard College, though involved in a contro- 
versy with Whitefield and thereby becoming obnoxious to his party, were still 
Calvinists, but of the more moderate order. 

Mr. Smith, our Pastor, it is evident from the zeal he manifested in the action of 
the Convention, belonged to the High Calvinistic school, but was not sustained in 
this by the leading men of his parish, as will be seen hereafter : and he himself 
got on to more moderate ground in after years. 

After Mr. Whitefield left Boston, in October, 1740, there was so great a desire 
for religious meetings, that the ministers of Boston established a weeldy evening 
lecture on Tuesday, which the Rev. Mr. Prince, in speaking of the revival, says, 
was the first stated evening lecture in these parts of the world." This was in 
Brattle street Church. The next year, another weekly lecture was opened on 
Friday evening at the Old South." 

1. This execution was satisfied by a levy on real estate. Waldo had led 
Westbrook beyond his depth in land speculations and ruined him. He died the 
February following this, a broken down man : his estate was insolvent; Enoch 
Freeman administered upon it and sold the fragtftcnts at auction in 1758 for what 
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had a lecture. We met to declare our sense of the late religious 
appearances. ' 

July 1. Days of fasting are kept in one place and another, on 
account of the worms. 

4. I sat out for Boston in company with Deacon Mitchell. 

6. Got to Boston. 

7. Went to see Mrs. Pierce, A. M. but did not stay, being obliged 
to attend a Convention of Ministers to bear testimony to the late 
glorious work of God in the land wliich is opposed by so many ; there 
were ninety ministers present, and with this happy concurrence, 
thirty ministers sent their testimony. The whole number of ministers 
and attesters, is one hundred and eleven. * 

15. Got home (from Boston.) 

22. Many strange Quakers in town. 

Septemler 19. Expectation of a French war. His Majesty 

1. Tills was the Association meeting at which the atlcstation to the revival, 
before mentioned, was adopted. 

[*Tliere are now in the Portland Library, [Athenseum] two volumes, entitled 
" Christian History, contaming accounts of the revival and propagation of Religion 
in Great Britain and America." They were formed by a set of weekly papers 
published under that title in the years 1743 and 1744. (The first number being 
published March 12, 1743 and the last February 23, 1744—5.) In that of July 
l(), 1743 is an account of the calling together by an advertisement in the Boston 
Gazette, " the Ministers of that town and such other brethren in the'country as 
were persuaded that there had been a happy revival of religion in many parts of 
the- land, through an extraordinary divine influence, to consider whether they were 
not called upon to give an open conjunct testimomj of an event so surprising, 
gracious, &c., in an interview at Boston the day after the then approaching 
conmienceuient, and that those who could not be present would send their 
atleslations in writing." 

Agreeably thereto, ninety ministers met at Boston on the seventh of July, and 
appointed Dr. Cohnan, Moderator;* Dr. Sewall, Assistant, and Messrs. Prince 
and Hobby, Scribes. The result of this assembly, which " after mquiries, dicta- 
tions, discourses and debates " they agreed upon, was denominated their " Testi- 
mony and Advice;" this it was agreed should be published, and it is, together 
with the " Attestations " contained in the letters of twenty-eight (and afterwards 
increased to forty-three) absent ministers, inserted in the first of the two volumes 
above mentioned, from page 155 to 200. 

This is the Assembly or " Convention of Ministers" which Mr. Smith hi his 
Journal, says he was obliged totttend. It may be here noted, that the following 

'■ Dr. Colmau dccliued the npiiDiutmcut ol Mt'dcrator, and Ur. Sewall was, choaen. VV. 



SMITlfs JOTIKNAL, 1 11 

having- o-o(, a victory over the French, and sent and demanded the 
demolition of Dunldrk. * 

October 4. The Court this year is kept at Purpoodock, on 
pretence of no tavern this side. 

13. Public Thanksgiving on account of the victory gained by His 
Majesty on the Maine. With eighteen hundred, he fought the 
French with twenty-eight hundred, which gives a surprising turn to 
the afTairs of Europe. 

14. Yesterday the whole country was put into a great fright, by 
Mr. Milliken bringing an express to Capt. Sherter. 

His Majesty we hear is now in Germany with seventeen thousand 
fine troops and expects to be joined with Prince Charles of Lorrain, 
with six thousand more. 

November 1. Mr. Jones is languishing and just gone. " At the 

ministers sent their joint " Attestation" to tlie Convention by Mr. Sniitli, and it is 
recorded witli the others, viz : 

Rev. Benjamin Allen, Pastor of the 2nd Church in Faimoutii. 

Rev. William Thompson, Pastor of the Church in Scarborough. 

Rev. Samuel Jefferds, Pastor of the Church in Wells. 

Rev. John Ilovey, Pastor of the Church in Arundel. 

Rev. Nicholas Loring, Pastor of the Church iji North Yarmouth. 

Rev. Moses Morrill, Pastor of the Church in Biddeford. F. 

1. This was the war for the Austrian succession, which commenced in 1740, on 
the death of the Emperor Charles VI. It was begun by Frederick II. of Prussia, 
and gradually drew into its vortex nearly all the powers of Europe. It terminated 
in 1748 by the peace of Aix la Chapelle, which secured the crown of Bohemia 
upon the head of the youthful and accomplished Maria Theresa, daughter of 
Charles VI. and the Imperial crown of Charlemagne, upon that of her husband 
Francis I., of Lorraine. 

England took part with the Empress, and France with Frederick. The accession 
of England to the alliance decided the fortune of the war, and involved America in 
that contest. 

October 13, 1743, Thanksgiving was held in the Colonies for the victory oi 
Dettingen, June 15, 1743. 

2. Phineas Jones, who died November 5, 1743, in the 38th year of his age. 

He came from Worcester, Massachusetts, first to North Yarmouth where he was 

/ 

much employed as a Surveyor, which business probably first led him into this part 
of the country. He became a large speculator in land and established himself ow 
the Neck in 1728 or 1729. He married Ann Hodge, of Newbury, by whom he 
had three children; Lucy, married first to Thomas Smith, son of our minister; 
second to Richard Derby, of Salem, 1778; third to Judge Greenleaf, of Newbury- 
port. Hannah married Col. John Waite ; Ann married Richard Codman, an»3 



112 smith's jouRNAf,. 

desire of iiim and his friends I sat out on a journey to Portsmouth, 
to bring down Dr. Rogers. 

A. Came away with Dr. Rogers. 

7. Got home. 

8. I was at the Funeral of Mr. Jones, who died on Saturday 
night (the 5th ) 

Decc7nhcr 14. Mr. Wight was ordained. ' 

15, The General Court's Committee are here fixing the places for 
Block houses, from Marblchead to Berwick, six ; three further east. " 



died in 1761, at the age of 19, leaving two children, Richard, and Ann, who 
married Jaines Fosdick. Mr. Jones' widow married Jabez Fox, and died June 9, 
1753, leaving cliiidren by him as will be seen more particularly hereafter. 

From her are descended all of the name now resident in our city. Nathaniel, 
the father of Phineas, and his brothers Stephen and Jabez, also settled in this 
town; his father died in 1746, his brother Stephen, was killed at Menis, in Nova 
Scotia, in 1747, and Jabez lived some years into the present century, and died 
in Falmouth, at a very advanced age, where he has children now residing. 
Ephraim Jones, of our town, and the late John Coffin Jones, of Boston, were 
his cousins. 

1. Rev. John Wight, of Windham, the first minister settled there. lie con- 
tinued to labor in the ministry in that Parish until his death, JMay 8, 1753, aged 
C5. He graduated at H. C. 1721, and came here from Dedham, Mass. Mr. 
Smith, in his Church records, says : " Thomas Chute, or as he spelt the name 
Chewt, Mary his wife, and Abigail his daughter, in God's providence, having 
removed to a new settlement called New Marblehead, were dismissed, as was also 
Thomas Haskell, in order to the embodying a Church there, there being a paucity 
of members, and he living in that neighborhood, though within the bounds of this 
parish. 

" Upon letters from the inhabitants of a new village called Marblehead, to assist 
in the ordination of the Rev. Mr. John Wight among them, as their pastor, the 
Chnrch voted to send their two deacons, Henry Wheeler and Samuel Cobb to 
accompany their pastor on that occasion." 

Thomas Chute and several of the early settlers of Windham, came here from 
Marblehead. Chute was born in London, in 1692, and emigrated to Marblehead; 
his descendants are found there now, and in the neighboring towns, not excepting 
Portland where they first alighted, on their passage from the old State. In 
October, 1738, the same Church record informs us that Thomas Chute, Mary his 
wife and Abigail their daughter, being regularly dismissed from the Church in 
Marblehead, were admitted to the one here. 

2. Preparations had been making some time to defend the eastern frontier in 
expectation of invasion from the French, with whom the English were now at war. 
In 1742, the government constructed a breast work at the foot of King street, 



?;iviith's journal. 113 

20. Sat out on a journey to Boston. 

26. Got to Boston. First saw a Comet, though it has been seen 
near three weeks. 

1744. 

(The journals now begin to be written on paper of a larger size 
viz : 8vo. Post.) 

March 1. I was married this evening (to Mrs. Jordan.) 

10. This day I am forty-two years old. I took a religious notice 
of it. I have rode in thirteen months past, more than three thousand 
miles. I have been to Boston four times. 

April. (Nothing material.) 

May 19. We have had a Packet from government; certain 
advice of a war with France. 

20. Sunday. People are at work at North Yarmouth and this 
town about their garrisons to day. Not a very full meeting ; many 
fearing to come. 

23. Samuel Waldo, Jr. chosen our Representative. ' 

25. All the talk and thoughts now is about war. People are 
every where garrisoning. We hear Canso is taken. 

June 3. Sunday. Not a full meeting — people fearing to come. 
This morning there was a great earthquake. 

14. The soldiers came down here. The Province have raised 
five hundred, three hundred of them for the eastern country. 

under direction of Enoch Freeman, in which were mounted ten twelve pounders. 
They now appropriated £1280 for further defences of the eastern line, of which 
£134 was applied to this town. Throughout the country great activity prevailed in 
preparations for defence. 

War was actually declared by France, March 15, 1744, but hostilities had in 
fact existed for some months previous. The war was proclaimed at Boston June 
2, 1744. 

1. Son of Brigadier Waldo; he was young at this time, having graduated at 
H. C. only the year before. The influence of his father, wh^ owned large estates 
here, probably secured his election. The same year his father was appointed by 
Gov. Shirley, Colonel of the eastern regiment, which was made up from all the 
country east of Saco river, and was about thirteen hundred strong. Falmouth 
furnished five hundred of the number. William Pepperell, afterwards General 
and Baronet, was Colonel of the western regiment in Maine. 

The French and Indians were already in arms in Nova Scotia and on the 
eastern frontier of Maine. They took Canso at the eastern extremity of Nova 
Scotia, May 13. 

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114 smith's tournat., 

20. Sat out for York. 
23. Got home. 

28. There was a public Fast on aocount of the war and the 
earthquake. 

29. A new recruit of soldiers came down here, the Province 
having raised five hundred more, three hundred for this eastern 
country ; eighty-five of them are posted in this towni, and two of them 
in my garrison. 

July 9. I catechised the children on the Neck — about eighty. 

12. Several gentlemen from the Court with others, with the 
Mohawks are now down at Georges, treating with the Penobscot 
Indians about being at peace with us, and about twenty Saco Indians 
are at Boston pretending to live among us. 

26. We hear the Penobscot Indians have agreed to be at peace. 

August 1. Mr, Waldo came here with a Colonel's commission. 
One hundred and sixty soldiers in this county are dismissed upon 
the late treaty with the Indians. 

28. Gunning after pidgeons, which increase in plenty. I brought 
home ten dozen in my chaise. 

September. (Rather a thin page in the journal of this month, and 
nothing of any consequence.) 

October 1. This day I separated myself in some poor manner for 
the exercise of humiliation, with respect to the sore providence that 
happened on it a year ago ; and, herewith, thanksgiving for so happy 
a>resettlem.ent, and supplication for the blessing of God. ' 

12. Two soldiers, very drunk, were drowned. 

30. I rode to Justice Frost's, designing to go to York to see Mr. 
Whitefield, (who came there a few days ago), but heard he was 
dangerovTsly ill, so returned. * 

31. Mr. Pearson this morning came to see me to oppose Mr. 
Whitefield's coming here. 

1. He refers to the death of his first wife which took place October 1, 1742, 
She was Sarah Tyng, the mother of all his children, and a woman of most admi- 
rable qualities. 

2. He took passage in a mast ship from London to Portsmouth; being desirous 
of hastening his arrival, he took a fishing schooner near the coast, in the hope of 
sooner reaching land ; but bad weather coming on , he was forced into York where 
he arrived October 26, and was detained several days by indisposhion. He was 
able to preach for Mr. Moody on Sunday, November 4, and the next Tuesday aad 



smith's journal. 115 

The Parish are like to be in a flame on account of Mr. White field's 
coming ; the leading men violently opposing. ' 

My brother returned from England to York with Mr. Whitefield. 

November 2. I am much about with the people to quiet them 
with respect to Mr. Whitefield. 

7. Mr. Elwins was ordained at Dunston. ' 

9. Had a Church meeting, and chose Dr. Moody and Mr. Cotton, 
Deacons. ^ 

14. The soldiers are all dismissed except a travelling company 
under Capt. Jordan, with whom are enlisted three Saco Indians, and 

Wednesday evenings, at Portsmouth; after wliich he had a relapse, which confined 
him until November 24 ; he then left Portsmoutii for Boston, where, and in other 
towns in Massachusetts, he continued to preach for several months ; after which he 
made a tour into Maine. 

1. This opposition of the principal people in the parish arose partly from a 
disapprobation of the system of Mr. Whilelield, and partly from a dread of seeing 
transacted here the scenes of extravagance, confusion and disorder, which had 
taken place in other towns where he had preached, and which had been the means 
of breaking up some Parishes. 

2. Dunston, the Second Parish in Scarborough; the Rev. Richard Elvins was 
the first minister settled in it. He had been a Baker in Salem ; but having been 
converted, as he professed, by the preaching of Whitefield on his fu-st visit to New 
England, in 1740, he resolved to devote himself to the ministry. He preached 
usually without notes and continued in the ministry at Scarborough until his death 
in 1776. He married the widow of the Rev. Samuel Willard, of Biddeford. 

3. Dr. Samuel Moody, sou of Major Moody, and Wm. Cotton. Deacon 
Cotton came from Portsmouth where he was born in 1710, about the year 1734, 

' and carried on a large tanning establishment on Fore street, near where Cotton 
street, named from him, now enters it. It is still carried on by the Owens, his 
descendants. He died in 1760. (See under that year.) 

In 1744, the Church adopted a rule that confessions for delinquencies, or "cases 
of scandal relating to the Church," should be made only before them. They had 
previously been made before the whole congregation. But the rule seems not to 
have gone into practice, for I find in 1765, the following vote was adopted : 
" April 14. This day being Sabbath, the Church voted that henceforward the 
mention of offences and of humiliation for them be made before the Church only." 
In 1815, the practice was wholly discontmued under the following vote : " March 
19, 1815. Unanimously voted, that whatever may have been the practice in xI\p 
earlier periods of this Church, with respect to requiring specific acknowledge- 
ments of particular ofiences from persons wishing to become members, and prior to 
itheir dismission, the above mentioned practice shall in future be discontinued, 
Tliia matter haa been under the consideration of the Church for some Uinc."' 



116 smith's journal. 

their families are settled at Stroud water, and provided for by order of 
government. 

14. Col. Pepperell and others are gone as Commissioners to 
demand of the Indians their sending the quota of men to join its 
against the St. Johns' Indians, (with whom we are now at war) 
agreeably to their agreement in the treaty with Governor Dummer, 
and in case of their non-compliance, after forty days, to assure them 
that the government will proclaim war with them. 

The throat distemper has broken out again in Kingston, Exeter 
and Stratham, and proves very mortal. 

December 20, Deacon Mitchell, of North Yarmouth, died about 
this time. It has been a sickly and dying time there, with the slow 
fever. ' 

(Mr. Smith seems to have enjoyed better health this year than for 
two or three years past.) 

1745. 

JamiMTij 13. An express is gone to Boston with the Indians' 
answer, viz : That their young men won't comply with the proposal 
of taking up arms against the St. Johns' Indians. 

24. Great and prevailing clamors every where against Mr. 
Whitefield. 

February 13. Ministers' meeting relating to Mr. Whitefield. 
Present Messrs. Thompson, Jefferds, Hovey, M. Morril and myself; 
had much of uneasiness.- (See note page 110) July 7, 1743. 

22. All the talk is about the expedition to Louisburg. There is a 
marvellous zeal and concurrence through the whole country witli 
respect to it ; such as the like was never seen in this part of the world. 

28. Annual Fast, which was earlier in the year than usual, on 
account of the expedition to Louisburg. 

March 10. I rode to New Marblehead, (now Windham,) to 
change with Mr. Wight. 

19. We hear that Mr. Whitefield who was to day at Biddeford, 
has got to Dunston. 

20. Mr. Whitefield having preached at Dunston yesterday, and io 

1. Deacon Jacob Mitchell died Dec. 21, 1744, aged 74. lie went to Nortii 
Yad-inoutli from Kingston, Mass. 

2. We infer from this passage that there was an opposition even among tim 
miuistcrs who concurred in the atlcotatiou, in regard to the visit of Mr. VVhilfficld, 



SMITH Si JOUKNAL. I 1/ 

day went back to Biddeford, but Mr. Loring and Mr. Allen sent 
letters with messengers, which brought him back. 

21. Mr. Whitefield preached A. M. at Biddeford, and returned to 
Scarborough and preached P. M. for Mr. Thompson. 

22. Mr. Whitefield preached A. M. for Thompson, and P. M. for 
Mr, Allen. I was over at Presumpscot ; Messrs. Whitefield, Wise 
and Rogers lodged at my house. 

23. Mr. Whitefield preached in my pulpit, A. M. Multitudes 
flocking from Purpoodock and elsewhere. 

24. Sunday. Mr. Wise preached to my people. Mr. Whitefiold 
preached at North Yarmouth all day. 

25. We came home with eighteen persons who dined with me. 
Mr. Whitefield preached here P. M. to a great congregation. All 
opposers at meeting but the two Noices. ' 

26. I heard Mr. Whitefield A. M. at Mr. Allen's and P. M. at 
Mr. Thompson's. 

I have been in great concern about Mr. Whitefield's coming among 
us, there having been such a violent opposition to him among all our 
leading men except Mr. Frost, and such unwearied pains taken to 
prejudice the people against him, so that I feared nothing but such a 
(juarrel as would be fatal to me ; but now he is come, stand still and 
see the providence of God. 

The wonderful providence of God is to be observed with respect to 
Mr. Whitefield, that Messrs. Loring and Thompson should come just 
as they did, and that Mr. Whitefield should come as he did, when 
Messrs. Pearson, Waite, Wheeler, Moody, Freeman and others were 
all gone out of town, so that there was no uneasiness; but all well, 
and general reception. Thanks to God. 

April 2. Mr. Waite returned, so that the Parish is in a buzz 
about Mr. Whitefield. " 

1, Joseph and his son Josiuh Noyes. They came here from Newbury and 
lived at Back Cove. Joseph died in 1755, under which year some account of the 
family may be found. 

2. John Waite. lie came also from Newbury, and was a ship master. lie 
was born in 1702 and died 1769, aged 67. Ilis children were John, a Colonel in 
the Revolutionary war, and Sheriff" of Cumberland County thirty-four years; 
Benjamin, Stephen, Isaac, Sarah, Hannah, Abigail, Rebecca, Emma and JMary. 
The daughters were all married but Mary, and left children. Saraii married fust 
Joshua Bangs, Jr. who died in 1753; second Gershom Roger?, of Windham, ain{ 



118 smith's jouunal. 

11. Mr. LoiiiTtellow caine to live here,' 



was mother of Capt. Jo^liua Rogers, for many years a respectable ship master and 
uiercliaiit in liiis place, who died without issue in 1823 ; Hannah married first 
Joseph (joodiiig, 1746, second IMoses Sliattuck; Abigail married Thomas Minot, of 
Brunswick, 17(j5, son of John Minot, who was born in Boston, 1694, and settled 
ill Brunswick ; Rebecca married Capt. John Thurlo, 1761 ; Emma married 
'J'liomas IVIotley son of Julin jNiotiey, who came from Belfast, Ireland, and settled 
here prior to 1738, a Joiner. She was Mr. Waite's yomigest child; was born in 
1746 and died in 1830, aged 84. She was grandmother of Thomas and Edward 
ftlotley, formerly the well known Commercial house in Boston. Her children were 
Robert, Richard, Cileorge, Henry, 1'homas, Edward and Charles f only Robert and 
Thomas have issue, and Thomas, Edward and Charles, only survive. 

Mr. Waite lived many years in a house fronting the beach near where the 
Portland Company's Works are now established : he afterwards took up his 
solitary abode on Peak's Island, at the mouth of the harbor. He was a man of 
ardent temperament and eccentric character. 

1. Stephen Longfellow. He graduated at H. C. in 1742, was son of Stephen 
Longfellow, and born at Byfield Parish, in Newbury, in 1723. The first of the 
name in New England was his grandfather William, who married Mrs. Anne 
Sewall, in 1678, and settled in Byfield, as a merchant. Stephen was the first who 
came here, and is the head of a line of honored and valued descendants. He 
married Tabitha Bragdon, of York, in 1749, by whom he had three sons, Stephen, 
Samuel and William, and one daughter Tabitha, married to Capt. John Stephenson 
in 1771. William died young. Stephen, his oldest son, was born hi 1750, 
married Patience Young, of York, December 13, 1773, by whom ha had Stephen, 
our respected fellow citizen, Samuel, deceased, Tabitha married to Lathrop 
Lewis, of Gorham, 1794, and another daughter, Abigail, married to Col. Samuel 
Stephenson, of Gorham. 

Mr. Longfellow filled many important offices in town, to universal acceptance : 
he was about fifteen years Grammar School master; Parish Clerk twenty-three 
years; Town Clerk twenty-tw^o years; many years Clerk of the Proprietors of the 
Common land; and from the establishment of the County in 1760 to the commence- 
ment of the Revolution in 1775, he was Register of Probate and Clerk of the 
Judicial Courts. His hand writing, m beautiful characters, symbolical of the purity 
and excellence of his own moral character, is hnpres^ed on all the records of the 
town and county through many successive years. He died in Gorham, to which 
place he moved on the destruction of the town. May 1, 1790, and was buried in 
this town. His son Stephen held the ofRce of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas 
from 1797 to 1811; he died in Gorham in 1824, aged 74. His son Stephen, born 
in April 1776, gradated at H. C. 1798, established himself in the practice of law m 
Portland, in which for forty years, he occupied an eminent position, having discharged 
every duty appropriate to it and to the offices which he was called from time to time 
1o fill, with an assiduity and ability which has no parallel among ws. He was a 
member of the Hartford Convcnlifn. with Jud^p Wilde from ihia Stt>itc.. and after- 



smith's journat,. 119 

17. He began to keep school. 

L'7. I have hanlly been out of doors tliis week, heinp- ill. 

Maij 17. Sac. Lfcf. Mr. Fox was choj>en Representative ; there 
was much disorder at the meeting. ' 

19. Sunday. For several Sabbaths and the lecture, I have been 
all in a blaze ; never in such a flame, and what I would attend to is 
that it was not only involuntary, but actually determined against. 1 
went to meeting resolving to be calm and moderate, lest people should 
think that it was wildness, and affectation to ape Mr. Whitefield ; 
but God (I see) makes what use of me he pleases, and I am only a 
machine in his hand. Ti/ji Jesu. 

27. I set out with my wife in our chaise for Boston. 

June 22. Got home. (While Mr. Smith was at Boston he heard 
Mr. Whitefield twice.) 

26. People are uneasy on account of the Indians; they having 
been discovered in several places. 

28. Constant expectation of the Indians doing mischief. 

July 6. We had news to day that Cape Breton was talcen the 
27th of last month. ^ There is great rejoicing through the country. 
We fired our cannon five times, and spent the afternoon at the Fort, 
rejoicing. * 

wards a member of Congress. He married Zilplia, a dauglUer of fien. Wads- 
worth, distinguished for Revohitionary services, by whom lie has had a numerous 
and worthy flimily ; through one of whom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the 
name has become familiar to the literary world at home and abroad, by the beauties 
of poetry and genius. 

1. Jabez Fox. He was chosen the two following years and again in 1750, '51 
and'52. He was ancestor of the Fox families in this town, of whom a more 
particular account will be found in another part of this work. 

*The expedition to Cape Breton was one of the most remarkable events in the 
history of North .America. It was hazardous in the attempt, but successful in the 
execution. F. 

2. Louisburg, on the Island of Cape Breton, was taken by the English and 
Provincial forces June 17, 1745. This was the strongest fortress in North 
America and afforded shelter to the French, from which they sent forth their expe- 
ditions to annoy the English Colonists. The capture of it, so ardently desired, 
produced universal joy. Several persons from this town were engaged in the 
attack. Moses Pearson commanded one of the Companies, and after the capture, 
was appointed agent of Gen. Pepperell's regiment to receive and distribute the spoils. 
The tract of land composing the principal part of Slandish was granted in 1750, to 



120 smith's ioup.xat.. 

7. Sundny. Oiir poople on llie Neck were ao-ain all ilny 
rejoicinti-, and exlravaoatitly blew olV a vast quantity of powder. 

IS. Public Thanksgiving on account of the successes at Cape 
Breton. 

19. We had an alarm to day on account of an express from Capt. 
Bradbury, that advised of the Indians breaking out and killing a man 
and forty cattle, and burning a garrison and saw mill. This is the 
lirst mischief in this eastern country, though two men have been 
killed at the westward this summer. 

20. For a fortnight past we have been exceedingly troubled with 
musquetoes. They would not sutfer us to sleep. 

22. Alarms continually on account of the Indians. 

30. A man was killed at Topsham, and a boy scalped. 

August 1. One Capt. Bean has a company that scouts from Saco 
to Presumpscot, and one Capt. Mocbun has another that scouts from 
Presumpscot to Brunswick ; besides there are other companies that 
scout along the frontier. 

5. Indians were discovered at Gorhamtown. 

15. His Majesty is this summer over at Hanover. The French 
drive all before them in Flanders, having retaken the most if not all 
the places the Duke of Marlborough did last year ; but then the war 
is all in our favor by sea. We having taken, besides other rich 
prizes, seven East Indiamen and three south Seamen. 

23. War with the Indians was proclaimed at Boston. 
The Indians killed a man and horse at Red Meadows. 
September 5. We have news of there being two Indians killed and 

one taken at Georges. (Mem. The captive is Col. Job ; the killed, 
Col. Morris and Col. Sam. The exploit was done by nineteen of the 
inhabitants under one Lieut. Proctor.) 

8. Sunday. An alarm at North Yarmouth stopped the people. 
There was an Indian fired at at Long Creek. 

15. Col. Cushing's son was shot. 

16. We live very quiet on account of the Indians. 
19. Public Fast on account of the Indian war. 

People seem wonderfully spirited to go out after the Indians. 

certain persons living in this neighborhood as a remuneration for their services and 
sufferings in that expedition. Their names may be seen in the History of Portland, 
V. 2, p. 83. The tract bore the name of Pearsontown until its incorporation in 1785. 



smith's journal. 121 

Four companies in tiiis town and many more in other towns are 
fitting for it ; the government offer four hundred pounds for the scalp 
of a man to those who go out at their own expense, and three 
hundred and ten pounds to those who have provision from the 
Province. 

30. No Indian news since the 8th of this month. 

October 2. We have not heard of an Indian being any where 
upon this eastern frontier for near a month, and there is reason to 
think that immediately upon their breaking out, they went away to 
Canada. (The reasons are here given.) 

8. We have news that thirteen Indians appeared at Sheepscot last 
week, viz., Monday, and killed two men and wounded a third, as 
they were gathering corn. We hear too that five Indians were seen 
a day after at Cathans, so that I suppose they are now returned from 
Canada. 

13. 'Tis generally a very sickly, dying time through the country, 
with the usual nervous or slow fever. 

We have tidings daily of our people dying at Cape Breton, and of 
many coming home and dying after arrival. 

15. Capt. Stephen Jones sailed with a company in quest of 
Penobscot Indians. 

20. Sunday. (Mr. Smith here appears to have been discouraged, 
and to fear that his usefulness was over. He observes that in his 
last prayer he said, a dead mi7iistcr and a dead people, and prayed 
that God would set a man over the congregation that would do the 
people service. But in making the record of these expressions, he 
appears to have blamed himself for using them ; he however added 
to his prayer, that while he continued he might be faithful. I would 
observe here that in the course of Mr. Smith's Journal it appears he 
had some differences with two or three of his parish, in noting 
which, he expressed a concern lest he had given occasion for them 
by something he said ; although he was not sensible of his having 
either said or done any thing that afforded a just cause for them. 
They were however of short continuance, for in every instance they 
were happily composed. This I mention to show his regard to 
harmony and peace, as well as the conscious temper of his mind in 
the above instance.) 

November 1. Capt. Jones returned, having seen no Indians, 
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122 smith's iottrnal. 

17. Sunday, Pretty full meeting; had great assistance P. M, 
23. About this time Lieut. Jordan's wife perished in the sea, with 

two more women and three men from a sloop bound to Boston. 

28. Mr. Leavitt was ordained at Salem about this time, with 
vast disturbance.' 

December 1. We have news of the Indians (to the number of 
nine hundred) destroying a Dutch village near Albany, of thirty 
families. 

19. Several children have died of the quincy and throat 
distemper. 

1746. 

January 17. Mr. White came home and brought sad news. The 
success of the rebels, having taken Edinburg, and made a bloody 
sacrifice of all the people within thirty miles, and being thirteen 
thousand strong, &c. * 

22. We hear that the sickness at Louisburg increases much ; 
and that Capt. Cutter is dead. 

28. Kead all the newspapers, which confirm the sad accounts of 
the rebellion in Scotland. 

February 12. There is a scout of two hundred men from the 
western towns, under one Stephens, who are to penetrate the frontiers 
of Canada. 

18, From the newspapers to day, I learn that the Woolwich 
man-of-war had taken and carried into St. Kitts, a Spanish Galleon, 
worth a million sterling ; that the King of Prussia is suing for peace, 
and that the troops from Gibraltar for Louisburg, were arriving in 
several parts of America. 

March 18. Parish meeting. Most of the principal persons were 
for allowing me £50 on account of keeping me out of my salary for 
two years past, but ^ *= ^ opposed and prevented it. 

(The best of men have some enemies.) 

April 19. This morning ten Indians killed Briant (of Gorham- 



1. Dudley Leavitt, ordained October 24, 1745, over the Tabernacle Chnrch. 
It claimed to be the First Church, and hence, as is believed, the disturbance. 

2. This is greatly exaggerated : the Pretender's son, Charles, entered Edin- 
burg, September 17, 1745, but without half the men stated above, and without the 
bloody sacrifice which fright gave to rumor. 



smith's journal. 123 

town) and four of his children, and took or killed his wife and Reed 
and Cloutinan, which puts the people in great surprise. 

May 2. Mr. Longfellow was agreed with, (as a school master) 
for another year at £200 per annum. 

6. I sat sail this evening in Wait's sloop, for Boston. Returned 17th. 

21. Mr. Cooper was ordained. ' News came to us this morning 
that the Indians had burnt all the houses at Broad Bay, and killed 
cattle at Pemaquid. 

23. News came from Georges that the Indians had fallen on a 
company of our men, killed one and wounded a second : and that our 
people killed an Indian which they scalped, and wounded a second, 
which it is hoped is dead. 

27. News from Sheepscot that five persons returning from 
meeting, were fired upon by fifteen Indians, who killed one and 
mortally wounded a second, which second killed an Indian as the 
Indian was coming to kill him. 

Jime 6. Two soldiers were killed by the Indians at the side of 
Westcoat's field, (at Long Creek.) There were twenty-five soldiers 
in the field, besides Westcoat's own folks, and only seven Indians 
drove them all ; scalped the two men, took their clothes and three 
guns ; (after Skillin, Stephen Irish, and one or more of our men had 
courageously stood and made a few fires) the Indians never supposed 
there were so many men there, but only Westcoat's hands. 

9. I see by the Governor's proclamation, that the government has 
voted to support three thousand volunteers in the present expedition ; 
New Hampshire one thousand ; Connecticut six hundred ; Rhode 
Island four hundred. Heard that two thousand French and Indians 
were designing to-morrow to make a powerful attack upon our 
frontiers. The news that alarms us comes to us from Capt. 
Sanders, viz., That a young Indian taken captive, declared it to us. 
10. An Indian was seen and fired at three times out of Mr. 
Frost's garrison, (at Stroudwater.) 

13. This neighborhood are now building a block house near Mr. 
Larrabee's, for the common defence. ' 

1. Samuel Cooper, son of Rev. Wm. Cooper, his predecessor, seUled over the 
Brattle street Society in Boston. He graduated at H. C. 1743 and died December 
20, 1783. 

2. Tliis was erected on the spot where the city Haii now stands. 



124 smith's journal. 

15. Sunday. An Indian was seen and fired at by N. Crocket, 
near the Causeway, by Chapman's, (near what is now called the 
Horse Tavern) upon which account a great number of our men were 
absent from meeting, and pursuing him. 

16. Our people seem more awakened and alarmed on account of 
the Indians than ever they have been. It is the same scout of 
Indians that are still upon our back, and which did the mischief at 
Gorhamtown. They grow exceeding bold, having no check as yet. 

17. I was at New Casco at the funeral of Mr. Joseph Sweat, 
who yesterday P. M. was killed by the Indians near Blanchard's, 
at North Yarmouth. Merriconeag, we think, was attacked this 
mornino-, there being continual firing there, and from thence to North 
Yarmouth. 

20. The expedition to Canada goes on in this Province, but 
slowly ; our people being dispirited on account of the sickness and 
their unfair treatment at Cape Breton. 

July 4. We had news that the rebellion is defeated. It was on 
the 16th April, when the Duke obtained a complete victory, having 
lost but three hundred, and the rebels twenty-nine hundred, with 
many of the principal officers. * 

(Mr. Smith seems to have been in low spirits on two of the 
Sabbaths this month " and ready to give up," yet said he, " I do not 
learn that the people perceive it.") 

August 2. The Indians came vipon Mr. Proctor's folks and we 
hear that they have killed one. 

5. Godfrey discovered an Indian in the swamp behind Bracket's. 

9. Philip Greely was killed. Twenty-eight Indians, (some say 
thirty-two) were seen together by Mr, Wier. " 

11. To-day we were all in arms going to North Yarmouth, 
hearing it was attacked ; but it proved to be the Indians killing hogs. 
An Indian fired at Weston, just by the Neck. 

1. The battle of Culloden ; the Duke of Cumberland commanded the English 
forces and Charles Edward, son of the Pretender, the rebels. 

2. This was at North Yarmouth : Mr. Greely was the Grandfather of Philip 
and Eliphalet Greely, of this city : he was son of Jonathan Greely, born June 9, 
1711, and great grandson of Andrew Greely who lived in Haverhill, Mass., in 
1669, at which time he kept the ferry over the Merrimac river. He married 
Hannah Stulibs. by whom h«^ had Jonathan, Eliphalet and Jane. 



smith's journal. 125 

12. Our men were this P. M. in a scout searching the swamp 
between the Bracket's. * 

13. Two Frenchmen and an Indian fired on Mr. Allen Dover, 
coming through the bog from Black Point, and he fired twice on 
them, and it is thought killed one of them. 

20. I attended a Fast at Purpoodock, on occasion of the drought, 
and preached P. M., but was in such a clouded dark frame as (I 
think) I never was at any other time. 

26. This afternoon Mr. Stubbs and a soldier with him, were 
killed by the Indians on the back side of his house. It is thought 
the same Indians that killed Greely. 

September 12. We have news that Cloutman and the other 
Gorhamtown captive are well at Canada. ' 

21. Boston is now alarmed with tidings of a French fleet that 
was seen off Cape Sable. 

25. Mr. Waite came in and brought news that Boston is all in aii 
uproar ; that seven hundred men came in on Blonday, and that ten 
thousand Avere expected in by Tuesday night, and that gentlemen are 
sending their principal effects into the country. " 

2S. Mr. Gordon brings news that fifteen thousand men are 
already got into Boston ; that all shops and warehouses are shut up, 
and that they are fortifying the end of Long Wharf. 

29. Salem, Marblehead and Cape Ann, are in great distress, 
sending away their effects, &c. 

October 5. Our people are now alarmed. 

6. Town meeting about sending away the records. I had con- 
cluded to send away my family to Harwich, but my wife negatived it. ^ 

1. Joshua Brackett lived directly opposite the head of High street, and his 
brother Anthony, where Brackett joins Danforth street : all the intermediate space 
was covered with a forest, and a portion of it, a swamp. There was a footpath 
from one house to another through the woods ; there were no other houses m that 
part of the town. 

2. This was in expectation of an attack by a large French fleet sent from 
France to avenge the capture of Cape Breton. But the elements fought against the 
enemy and brought huii to nought. 

3. Our little town did not mean to surrender without firing a gun ; for in view of 
this contemplated attack by the French fleet, they voted that the " Selectmen apply 
to Capt. Moses Pearson for the use of his two great guns, to be placed on Spring 
Point, and to got four barrels of powder, halls and flints for the use of the town." 



126 smith's journal, 

8. \Vc arc packing up the principal of our eflects to send tlicni 
with the family to Newbury. 

11. Wo are only waiting for an opportunity to go to Newbury. 

16. Public Fast on occasion of the French fleet, &c. We have 
now certain advice that they are in Jebucta, fortifying. ' That 
Annapolis is besieged, and that there is a mortal epidemical sickness 
among the French, and their Admiral dead. 

17. My wife never concluded till to-day not to move away. 

25. Mr. Waite brought news from Boston, that a storm cast two 
of the transports on shore, on the Isle of Sable ; that two of tlie large 
men-of-war (of the Jebucta fleet) had parted with their masts ; * and 
that a reigning mortal sickness had been among them. All of which 
entirely disconcerted them in their measures and obliged them to stay 
so long at Jebucta. But upon taking one of our vessels, and hearing 
that the English fleet were pursuing them, they hurried out, and that 
the disappointment had caused the Duke D'Anville to poison himself, 
and the next Admiral to fall on his sword, and to burn a sixty gun 
ship. 

November 30. Sunday. I am quite discouraged, my voice failing 
by reason of a rheumatic hoarseness. 

December 7. Sunday. Thin meeting, and growing more and 
more so. Public worship is like to drop ; for in the summer people 
fear to come, because of the Indians, and in the winter they cannot 
come. 

(This ends the Journal of a year replete with accounts of war and 
war's alarm.) 

1747. 

January. No events of any importance are noticed this month. 

February 12. People think I am in earnest about leaving them 
and I think so too. I am quite discouraged, my voice is gone. 

20. We have melancholy new's of our troops at Menis, viz., that 
an army of six hundred French and Indians in the night surprised 
them and killed sixty-nine, took fifty with two sloops that had our 
ammunition, &c., and obliged the rest of our army to capitulate. 

1. Jebucta is now Halifax. 

*They were overtaken by a violent tempest off Cape Sable, and what ships 
escaped destruction returned singly to Fiance. F, 



smith's joi'rnal. 127 

Our army consisted of about five liunclred. Col. Noble* and our 
Capt. Jones were killed and many of this county. ' 

25. Visited and prayed with Mrs. Oilman, on occasion of tlic 
death of her son Moses, who was killed at Menis Avith several others. 

We hear father Hall and Roberts of this place lately died at 
Annapolis. God is weakening us exceedingly, and grievously 
thinning our small numbers in this country. Every thing in God's 
Providence looks dark and distressing. 

March 9. Annual Parish Meeting. (Mr. Smith here takes a 
thankful notice of the harmony of the Parish, and their liberality 
towards him in voting £150, new tenor (instead of £400 old tenor) 
for his salary, of which he gave £100 old tenor to New Casco for 
preaching six months with them, which was kindly accepted.) " 

16. Mr. Waite with several others were to see me, commending 
my sermon, &c. There is a surprising turn to the people's counte- 
nances, thoughts, words and actions towards me. Thanks to God. 

(The turn was doubtless imaginary, for none of these things appear 
to have been against him.) 

25. The people came and fitted the swivel guns in my boxes. ^ 

A'[n'il 13. The Indians first were discovered (about eight) and 
killed a young man, one Dresser at Scarborough. 

14. We are all in alarm to-day. Every where Indians are seen. 
They took W. Knights and two sons at Sacaribig. * 

The Indians one day this week killed Mr. Elliot and son and 
carried away one Murch. 

* His loss was sLxty killed and fifty wounded. 

1. Stephen Jones; he was brother of Phineas and son of Nathaniel : they came 
here from Worcester, MassachuseUs, about 1730. Stephen married Lydia Jones, of 
Weston, in 1735, and bad children, Lydia and Stephen, the latter born 1739. 
The late John Coffin Jones, of Boston, was his cousin. 

2. Old tenor was worth only twenty-five per cent, of new tenor. His salary at 
old tenor was only $167 in silver; the addition now voted increased it to what was 
equal to $250 in silver. 

3. His house which stood at the head of what is now India street, on the spot 
occupied by Capt. Joshua Osgood's house, was used as a garrison in times of alarm 
from the Indians. 

4. Saccarappa, six miles from Portland, now a village of Westbrook. Long 
Creek, which is mentioned afterwards, April 22, is in Cape Elizabeth, about three 
miles from Portland. 



128 SMITIl\s JOURNAL. 

18. 1 was present at the taking oil' the hand of one Doublcday 
hy the Doctor of the mast ship. 

19. Sunday. Very thin meeting ; people fearing to come, partly 
by reason of what the Indians have done and partly they having 
sometime resolved to keep at home. This being the fatal day, as 
people universally looked upon it, on wliich the Indians first do 
mischief, and on which they did it last year, but none was done now. 

21. The Indians to-day (about ten) killed Mr. Foster and carried 
away his wife and six children. They killed several cattle. Our 
folks pursued them ; they say there were fifty. 

22. We are all alarmed again. In the evening one Stephen 
Bailey was fired upon by seven Indians near Long Creek. 

23. I prayed with a company of young men (twenty-six) who 
are now going out under the command of Capt. Ilsley in pursuit of 
the Indians. May God give them success. ' 

A scout of men are now out from North Yarmouth, another going 

1. Isaac Ilsley, was born in Newbury in 1703, and canie here about 1735 : he 
was a joiner by trade; and in 1759 built an addition to the meeting house of the 
First Parish ; he also erected the tall spire of that Church in 1761. lie was an 
active and enterprising man, and always ready to engage in expeditions against the 
Indians. He was also an officer in the expedition against Cape Breton in 1745. 
lie built a house at Back Cove, near Fall Brook, in which he lived; a portion of 
the farm now remains in the hands of his grandson, Isaac. He died April 15, 
1781, aged 78. His children were Isaac, Enoch, Jonathan, Daniel and Prudence 
married to Simon Gookin, 1742. He was a descendant of Wm. Ilsley who was 
born in Newbury, England, in 1608, and emigrated to Newbury in this country 
about 1634, and is supposed to be ancestor of all the Usleys in the country. 

Isaac's son Enoch was born in 1730, and was the father of Mrs. Samuel 
Freeman, Mrs. James Deering and Mrs. Isaac Ilsley and Parker Ilsley and others, 
as will be mentioned hereafter. He died November 10, 1811, having filled impor- 
tant stations, and having at one time accumulated a handsome property. Daniel 
was born in 1740, married Mary, a daughter of Ephraim Jones in 1762, and had 
six sons and one daughter, viz., Isaac, George, William, Robert, Henry, Charlotte, 
married to Jonathan Andrews, and Stephen. Isaac, Henry and Charlotte only 
survive m 1849. He was delegate to the Convention of Massachusetts for ratifying 
the National Constitution, Representative to the General Court and member of 
Congress. He died m 1813, aged 73. Jonathan was born in 1738 and died in 
May, 1819. He married Dorcas Ingersoll, by whom he had nine children born 
1765 to 1785, viz., Mary, Clarissa, Joan, Olive, Dorcas, Joshua, JVathaniel, 
Jonathan and Enoch, who are all dead but Clarissa and Nathaniel. His widow 
died in Alfred, 1810, Isaac, son of Isaac, married Mary Bradbury, 1751, and 



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out from Purpoodock. We are in the most distressed circumstaiices. 
Swarms of Indians being about the frontier, and no soldiers save 
Captain Jordan's Company of fifty men, thirty of whom have been 
for some time at Topsham, guarding the government timber. 

24. The Indians are spread all over the frontier from Topsham to 
Wells. 

May 2. Five Indians have this week killed two women. 

5. The Indians killed a man (one Hinkley) at New Meadows and 
chased one yesterday at Wells, in the heart of the town, 

7. The Indians fired upon a man in Dunston. 

We hear the Indians yesterday at Damariscotta took a man and 
killed his wife and daughter in law. 

9. The Indians at Topsham fired upon a canoe in which they 
killed two men and greatly wounded one more, only a woman escaped 
unhurt. 

19. Captain Ilsley and Morris are out with scouts pursuing the 
Indians. The former takes two whale boats to go to Sebago. 

23. We have been for some time pretty quiet as to the Indians. 

The Canada men are still coming down and sent out in scouts 
after Indians. 

25. We are now alarmed again with a certain account of the 
French fleet. 

■ 26. We have news that Friday last the Indians killed at 
Pemaquid our Mr. John and Joseph Cox, Vincent, Smith and 
Weston of Purpoodock, and five men of the Fort, and took Dyer, 
Mayo and Cox of this town, and only a lad and Mr. Lowell escaped, 
the latter exceedingly wounded. ' 

had Mary, married George Warren, 1780, Joshua, Abigail married Samuel Motley, 
Sally, Nancy, Isaac, Betsey married Daniel Mountfort, and Jolui. They are all 
dead but Mrs. Mountfort, who was born in 1766 : Isaac their father became insane 
at the beginning of the Revolution and lived with his brother Enoch at Stroudwater. 
1. There were sixteen men in the Fort. Jolm Cox was admitted an inhabitant 
of this town in 1729. He was a mariner and was ancestor of the family of the 
same name among us. His children were Josiah, Tabitha, married to Joseph 
Bailey, John, James, Esther, married to Joshua Brackett, Jr., Mercy, married to 
Joseph Bailey, Jr., Thankful, married first to Samuel Hodgkins, second to Pogue. 
Josiah the eldest died previous to 1755, leaving four minor children, viz., Dorcas, 
Josiah, Mary Andrews and Elizabeth. James, married Catherine Grant in 
1745 and died in 1796j aged 77. John, son of Josiah, married Sarah, daughter of 
* 17 



130 smith's journal. 

29. We have now news that neither the. French nor English fleet 
are like to come to America. 

June 15. Sailed for, and 16th arrived at Boston. Came from 
there the 26th and got home the 29th. 

July 1. The whole frontier was thrown into surprise by alarm. 
Some Indians discovered by Capt. Smith, at Saco. 

7. We have news of Admirals Warren and Anson taking six 
India ships, with their convoys, from France. 

August 20. Our Captives came home from Canada ; one hundred 
and seventy-one came in a large ship from Quebec and ninety more 
are coming ; thirty left sick and seventy are dead. * 

We have accounts from Canada that but eight or nine of the 
French fleet escaped Admiral Anson and Warren. The whole fleet 
consisted of thirty-eight ships, all designed to recruit Canada and 
reduce Annapolis. They had one thousand stand of arms ; seven 
thousand suits of clothes with stores of ammunition, &c. Thus is 
Annapolis and this part of the country saved surprisingly a fourth 
time. Glory to the all disposing providence of God. 

The India ships were immensely rich, having a million and a half 
in specie. Admiral Anson's share came to £60,000. 

26. We have news that Admiral Warren and Commodore Fox 
have taken a great many of the French West India sugar ships. 

27. The Indians took Wm. Bolton and wounded a lad of Mr. ■ 
Mayberry's, at Marblehead, (now Windham). There appeared to be 
twenty-seven French and Indians. 

Samuel Proctor in 1739, and by her, and two other wives, he had twenty children. 
He left the country in the Revolution, for Nova Scotia where he died, and where 
a portion of his descendants remain. The late Josiah Cox of this town, who died 
in 1829, aged 73, was his son ; his widow, Sukfey Greenleaf, to whom he was 
married in 1785, and several children, now live here. The daughters of John Cox 
married Peter Thomas, John Cox, Samuel Butts, James Means, Jonathan Paine 
and Huston. 

The Lowell who escaped was Abner, son of Gideon, who came from Amesbury, 
in Massachusetts, and is the ancestor of those now bearing the name in town; lie 
died in 1761. His son Abner was born in a house which stood just above Clark's 
Point, January 3,1741, and died in 1828, aged 87. The ancestor came from 
Bristol, England, about 1639 and settled in Newbury. 

1. These prisoners were released under an exchange,, and were principally 
from Massachiisetts, New Hampshire and Maine. 



smith's journal. 131 

Septeniher 3. We have an express that Wednesday last in the 
morning, the French and Indians, about fifty, killed three men and 
wounded two, at Pemaquid ; after which they attacked the Fort for 
two hours. 

21. The Indians moved off upon their taking Wm. Bolton, for we 
have heard nothing of them since. I suppose hearing by him of the 
Canada soldiers discouraged them. 

October 6. I prayed with the Court P. M. Justice Came drunk 
all day. 

7. The Canada officers begin to move off. 

November 11. Brigadier Waldo went off' with Dr. Oliver and Mr. 
Wheaton. 

24. Sunday. I preached a funeral sermon on the occasion of 
those eight ministers that have died within a year, viz., Messrs. 
Fitch, Shurtlef, Rogers, Toppan, Colman, Tukinson, Moody and 
Wiswell. * 

December 9. The Town house at Boston was burnt. 

(The Journal of this month contains two pages exceedingly 
crowded, but nothing so interesting as to require notice among these 
extracts, upon the general plan on which they have hitherto been 
made.) 

1748. 

January 6. We have news (via West Indies,) that Commodore 

1. Rev. Mr. Freeman, of Limerick, the wortiiy son of my honored predecessor 
in this work, furnishes me the principal facts in following note : 

1. Jabez Fitch, Ipswich, first Church, H. C. 1694: died Nov. 22, 1746, aged 75. 

2. William Shurtlef, Portsmouth, N. H., second Church, H. C. 1707 : died 
May, 9, 1747, aged 58. 

3. John Rogers, Ipswich, first Church, H. C. 1684 : died December 28, 1745, 
aged 80. Though this death was more than a year before November 24, 1747, it 
is probably the death referred to by Mr. Smith. 

4. Christopher Toppan, Newbury, Mass., first Church, H. C. 1691, died 
July 23, 1747, aged 76. 

5. Benjamin Colman, D. D., Brattle street, Boston, H. C. 1692 : died August 
29, 1747, aged 73. 

6. No such name as Tukinson is found in the list of Graduates of the United 
States, or in accounts of ministers. The individual referred to is not recognized. 

7. Samuel Moody, of York, H. C. 1697 : died Nov, 13, 1747, aged 72. 

8. Rev. Samuel Wiswell, graduated at H. C. 1701, died in 1746. 



132 smith's journai,. 

Hawke fell in with the Martinico fleet of two hundred sail, four daj'S 
from Brest, and took six ships of the line and two frigates. The 
merchantmen escaped witli only one ship of the line and one frigate. 

Capt. Pearson brings news from Boston of Admiral Hawke, having 
a few days after the success above mentioned, taken six men of war 
with their transports. 

9. The difficulties of living, daily increase ; unrighteousness and 
oppression are breaking out like a deluge. 

There is no standard ; but every man is getting what he can. 

10. .The prices of the necessaries of life (through the depreciation 
of money) do daily monstrously increase. 

31. Sunday. I preached at Biddeford. 

February 5. I was at prayer with Justice Moody ; walked there 
in snow shoes. They thought he was dying. 

11. There is a surprising body of snow upon the ground. 
20. Justice Moody died this morning. * 

27. Went to Saccarabig. Mr. Conant tells me he has ground 
one thousand bushels of corn this winter, there being no other mill 
than his, between North Yarmouth and Saco. 

(Although but little is here noticed from the Journal of this month, 
the pages are particularly filled with accounts of the weather, and 
the difficulties attending the great depth of the snow.) 

March. Mr. Smith this month seems to have been much 
disheartened in his pulpit, apprehending that he is slighted by his 
people ; but he says,) 

17. Parish meeting. They voted me £600. 

(A very full account of the weather is contained in the pages of 
this month.) 

April 18. I was at prayer with Mr. Gary, who died while I was 
there. 

1. This was Joshua Moody, eldest son of Major Samuel Moody. He was 
born October 31, 1697, and graduated at H. C. in 1716. His father lived here at 
that time and he probably immediately made tliis the place of his abode. He does 
not appear to have followed any profession. In March, 1719, he was chosen the 
first Clerk of the town; he was, some years, a Selectman, and for many years an 
active Magistrate, an office of much responsibility at a time when there were no 
Courts held here and no resident lawyers. He married Tabitha Cox in 1736, by 
whom he had Houtchiii, William and James. 



smith's journal, 133 

Maij 3. Capt. Burnet was killed by the Indians at Brunswick, 

and with him . 

16. I sailed for Boston with Capt. E. Jones, (Returned June 9.) 

20. Indian corn is now 30s. a bushel ; flour £10 a hundred. 
The Indians killed one Eaton and took at N. Yarmouth, 

and burnt all the houses eastward of Wier's. There was an hundred 
of them. They way laid the whole road to New Casco. 

21. I was to see Lambert who is awakened and wrought upon. 
(This is not the only person that was awakened by Mr. Smith's 
preaching.) 

23. A melancholy dry time ^ # # This and the mischiefs 
done by the Indians, make it a dark time indeed. 

Jiihj 2. We had news that the preliminaries of peace are agreed 
on, and a cessation of arms. ^ Happy tidings ! 

8. I have been to prayer with one Whitney, who was wounded 
by the Indians, and died this night. 

31. The lightning killed Mrs. Hicks and her child. Mr. Gid- 
dings was much burnt and near dead. None escaped unhurt but a 
little child, which by crying brought in the people, who found Mrs. 
Hicks and three of her children prostrate on the hearth, and Mrs. 
Giddings appeared dead. " 

August 4. I don't know whether I was ever so hurried in the 
ministry, so constantly praying with the sick and at funerals, 
(This frequency of prayer continued through the month.) 

SejJtember 1. There is an asthmatic quincy prevailing on this 
week among the children, that proves dreadfully mortal. 

24. I have not been in my study this week, only yesterday P. 
M. I am out all day visiting and praying with the sick. 

November 9. Nine children have lately died at North Yarmouth, 
with the canker ail. 

1. These preliminaries were consummated by the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 
between Spain, France and England, which was completed October 18, 1748, and 
terminated the war for the Austrian succession. 

2. Mrs. Hicks lived near what is now called Bishop's Corner, in Westbrook : 
she was daughter of Mr. Giddings who originated in Gloucester, Mass , and wife 
of Lemuel Hicks, son of Nathaniel Hicks, who came from Kittery. " The little 
child " who survived, was Joseph : he died in Falmouth, in 1846, in the 98th year 
of his age, leaving children. 



134 smith's journal. 

7. I am hurried perpetually with the sick ; the whole practice 
rests on me, and God gives me reputation with satisfaction of mind, 
as being a successful instrument in his hands. ^ 

December 12. We tapped the barrel of wine sent us by Messrs. 
Frost, Fox, Wheeler, Noice, Pearson, Wait, Ilsley, Berry and Dalton. 

(Thus ends the few extracts from the Journal of this year, not to 
the public so gloomy and distressing as the two last.) 

1749. 

Januarij 22. Sunday. I labor for want of breath, being griev- 
ously oppressed at my breast. I raise much, and have a continual 
cough all this month, which with my other complaints quite 
dishearten me. 

February 4. Major Freeman came home from the General Court, 
and brought with him the new Act for drawing in, all the paper 
currencies, by the exchange of silver - 

16. Yesterday one Mrs. Deering, of Bluepoint, was found 
barbarously murdered ; it is supposed by her husband. 

March 14. Town meeting. Major Freeman chosen Treasurer; 
Capt. Pearson, Clerk; Col. Gushing, Strout, Cotton, Snow and 
Thompson, Selectmen. 

15. Parish meeting. The people raised my salary £50, viz., to 
£650. 



1. Mr. Smith not only consoled the hearts of his people, but ministered to their 
bodies. Many of the old Clergymen in the early settlement of the country, when 
Physicians were much more rare than at present, united the practice of physic to 
their clerical ministrations. 

2. This Act was passed in December, 1748, by the influence of Gov. Hutch- 
inson, then Speaker of the House, which appropriated the amount to be received 
from the British Government for the expenses of the Cape Breton expedition, to 
redeem the depreciated paper. The amount of paper money then in ciixulation 
was £2,450,000 old tenor, equal to about $1,000,000 in silver. The sum appro- 
priated by government was £183,649 sterling, which as the paper was at a 
discount of between eleven and twelve for one, was nearly sufficient to take up the 
whole quantity. The Act provided that the deficiency should be redeemed by a 
tax. The currency was thus restored to par, and the business of the Province was 
afterwards conducted in silver and gold, to the great convenience and prosperity of 
the people ; although at first it produced serious embarrassments for the want of a 
sufficient circulating medium. 



smith's journal. 135 

23. Annual Fast. I had uncommon assistance, especially in the 
first prayer ; I was about an hour, and I was an hour and a half in 
sermon. 

26. Sunday. I could not speak in morning sermon. I told the 
people they were convinced of the necessity of looking out for another 
minister. 

April 13. Mr. Joshua Freeman sent in near three gallons choice 
Madeira wine. * 

(Several other presents are particularly mentioned this month.) 

May. Visiting and receiving visits of friends, and visiting and 

1. Joshua Freeman came here from Barnstable, Cape Cod, previous to 1740 : 
in that year he purchased the lot on the corner of Exchange and Middle streets, 
eastern side of Exchange street, for .£80 O. T. which was equal to about $^Q in 
silver, on which he built the wooden house which now stands a little east of the 
comer on Middle street, in which he kept a store and tavern. His wife's name 
was Patience, to whom he was married before he came liere, at which time his son 
George was an infant ; he was born in 1739, and was living in Standish within a 
few years. 

His son Joshua was born in 1730, married Lois the youngest daughter of Moses 
Pearson, in 1750, by whom he had Sarah, born January 4, 1751; Mary, July 22, 
1755 ; Daniel, November 30, 1757; Lois, February 18, 1760 ; Eunice, January 
19, 1762; Joshua, October 2, 1763; Moses, December 20, 1765; Samuel, October 
8, 1767; Pearson, February 4, 1770; Jeremiah, April 1, 1772; Thomas, December 
30, 1774; Dummer, June 2, 1779. Thomas the last surviving son was a trader in 
Portland many years, and deacon of the First Church : he died October 27, 1847, 
leaving the reputation of a worthy man and good citizen. The father, Joshua 
Freeman who first came here, died September 23, 1770, aged 70, his wife having 
died the year before. Joshua his son died November 11, 1796, in his 66th year; 
his wife survived until March 21, 1815, when she died aged eighty years. The 
house which he built on the corner, in 1741 or '42, passed into the hands of John 
Tyng, who conveyed the property to John Fox for £400 O. T. who sold it to 
Nathaniel Deering, by whose son James it is now owned. Mr. Fox lived in it 
until his house on Fore street was built, in 1788; after that, Mr. Deering occupied 
it eighteen years : and although now over one hundred years old, it bears no marks 
of its antiquity. 

It may show something of the style of an early day to describe the dress of 
Joshua Freeman, when he went a courting in 1750, as given by himself to Mr. 
Isaac Usley. He said he wore a full bottomed wig and cocked hat, scarlet coat and 
small clothes, white vest and stockings, shoes and buckles, and two watches, one 
each side. That surpasses any foppery of the present day : the wearer of this dress 
was then twenty years old. 



l:j(> SMITH .s JOURNAL. 

praying with the sick, were the principal subjects of the Journal this 
month, bei^ides accounts of the weather which occupy nearly a full 
page of every month.) 

Ju7te 15. Public Fast on account of the drought. 

July 6. The Indians are now at Boston treating about peace. 
They have taken a boy and killed a man on the western frontier. 

25. My wife came home from Boston. She brings good news, 
that the entire prospect of nature is changed at the westward. From 
the brink of a dreadful ruin and absolute famine, never more 
suddenly and signally saved. Thanks to God. 

August 9. I went with Peter in a float to New Casco to visit Mr, 
Blackston, 

24. Public Thanksgiving on account of the great mercy in the 
late seasonable and refreshing rains. 

30. Sailed for Boston with Mr. Bradbury. 

September 14. Got home (from Boston.) 

28. The Commissioners came to town, viz., Mr. Hutchinson, 
Choat, Williams, Otis, Downing and Hutchinson. Mr. Welstead. 
Chaplain ; Col. Cotton, Clerk. ' 

30. The town is full of company. 

1. The Commissioners from Massachusetts were Thomas Hutciiinson, after- 
wards Governor, John Choate, Israel Wilhams and James Otis from Barnstable, 
father of the distinguished lawyer and patriot of the same name, who was here as a 
spectator and a witness to the transaction. From New Hampshire, the Commis- 
sioners were Theodore Atkinson and John Downing, who becoming weary waiting 
for the Penobscots, returned on the 8th of October, having empowered Roland 
Cotton, the Clerk, to sign the treaty for them in behalf of New Hampshire. 

The Penobscots did not arrive until October 14, when the Conference imme- 
diately commenced in the meeting house of the First Parish, which stood where 
the Stone Church is now situated. Tlie articles were signed October 16, by the 
representatives of the Penobscot, Norridgewock and St. Francois tribes, on the part 
of the Indians, and the Commissioners on the part of the English. The treaty was 
formed on the basis of that concluded with Gov. Dummer, in 1725. All captives 
were to be discharged, and each party to retain unmolested all the rights and 
possessions in land as existing prior to the war. Toxus, a Penobscot chief, was 
the leader in the Conference, at which time he said of himself, " I am now grown 
old." Eger Emmet was the chief of the Norridgewocks. Toxus was at first 
unwilling to engage to a perpetual peace, that is " as long as the sun and moon 
ondure," but wished to have it dependent on continuance of peace with the 
French; this not being agreed to by tJie English, he at last yielded. 



smith's journal. 137 

October 1. Sunday. Mr. Welstead preached P. M. ' 
2. Contribution yesterday £17 15s. * 

1. Rev. Will. Welsted was born in Boston, 1695, graduated at H. C 1716, a 
classmate of our Joshua Moody, and was settled in the new Brick Church in 
Boston, 1728. He married a sister of Gov. Hutchinson, and died in 1753. He 
was here and preached in July and August, 1726, at a former Conference with the 
Indians. He was then tutor at Cambridge, the duties of which office he discharged 
from 1720 to 1728. The Friday lecture before communion, the singmg by separate 
lines, or deaconing the Psalm as it was called, and the introduction of Watts' 
Psalms and Hymns, were established in his Parish during his ministry. 

2. It had been the practice in this Society from its establishment, as it was in 
many others to collect a contribution from strangers each Sabbath for the benefit of 
the minister; this continued until 1801, when the Parish probably ashamed of the 
inhospitable custom, allowed Dr. Deane a yearly sum of f 5 instead of the contri- 
bution. 

The Selectmen of the town this year petitioned the General Court to assess 
a tax upon the County, to repair the bridge over Fore river, at Stroudwater, 
which had gone to decay. They ordered it to be repaired and a toll granted to pay 
the expense. This had become the route for the western travel, instead of the 
circuitous road across the Spurwink river and round the shore of Cape Elizabeth. 

As this year is just a century distant from the point of our present observation, it 
may not be unprofitable to give a brief presentment of the situation of the town at 
that time. The whole population of Maine at that period was from 12,000 to 
15,000; in 1744 it was short of 12,000. Falmouth was then the most considerable 
town in the Province, and mustered for one of the two regiments of militia formed 
in that year in the territory, 500 men ; a larger number than any other town 
contributed. From various sources of information, I shall not be far from the truth 
in setting down the families and population in the several districts of the town 
in 1749, as follows, viz : 

Cape Elizabeth, families 150 population 900 

New Casco, " 58 " 350 

Stroudwater, " 46 " 276 

Back Cove, " 20 " 120 

Neck, now Portland, " 116 " 700 

390 2346 

Slaves 21 

The present population of the same districts is over 30,000. 
We have it from Mr. Smith's Journal that in 1759, ten years after the time 
above selected, there were on the Neck 136 dwelling houses, beside four ware 
houses occupied by families, the whole embracing 160 families, which upon a fair 
calculation would number 1000 souls. In 1764, by a census then taken, the 
number of dwelling houses in the whole town was 460, containing 585 families, 
and a population of 3770. 

IS 



138 smith's journal. 

6. Mr. Russel and New, went away, as did a great part of the 
company in town, being tired waiting for the Indians. 

We may therefore safely estimate the population of the whole town in 1749, at 
2360, and of the Neck at 720, the slaves being owned principally in that section; 
and the dwelling houses on the Neck at J20. The houses were all, but five or six, 
below Centre street; those above, were Joshua Brackett's, near the head of High 
street, which was the only house on Congress street above the meeting house; 
Anthony Brackett's, where Bracket joins Danforth street ; Cox's, where High 
enters York street; Bryce McLellan's and Stephen Jones', on York street, below 
Cox's. There was no other street above Centre, but Main and York streets. 
That part of the town was covered with wood and swamps, and no carriage could 
pass York above Centre street, in consequence of the gullies through which the 
water from the swamps above flowed into the river. Teams going in that direction 
passed down the bank and along the beach, where were one or two Brick yards, 
above where Brown's Sugar house is. In short, that portion of the town was, as a 
witness on another occasion said, an eminent wilderness. 

The business was done at the lower end of the town, around the foot of India 
street and the beach below, where was the town landing; on the west side of that 
street was the Ferry to Cape Elizabeth, which had been used by persons travelling 
west by land. The principal business was lumber and wood and fishing; the 
former occupied a number of persons in procuring masts, spars, timber and deal, 
for the English navy and market, which were loaded on large ships sent here for 
the purpose. Wood was sent coastwise in small vessels. The only class of vessels 
then owned here was schooners and sloops, the largest of which previous to 1752, 
was eighty tons burden. 

In 1752 there were but seven schooners and fifteen sloops owned in town, and 
these were principally employed in coasting. A few were engaged in the West 
India trade. There were no wharves extending into the harbor ; short piers 
furnished all the facilities required; large ships were loaded in the stream. 

The State of Maine now owns more tons of vessels than was owned in the 
whole United States, of every description, at the commencement of our national 
existence, in 1789, which was 478,000 tons. And we doubt not that the tonnage 
now owned in the Commercial District of Portland alone, is more than was owned 
in all the Colonies embraced in our Union in 1749. Our tonnage now exceeds 
79,000 tons. Portland District now has 10,000 tons more shij)ping than the city.of 
London had in 1685, with its half a million of inhabitants. 

The building of vessels and boats gave employment to a portion of our people, and 
from the earliest settlement engaged the attention of the inhabitants. Some of our 
most prominent men were brought up to this occupation, as the Cobbs, James 
Gooding, James Milk, Nathaniel Deering, &c., and all, nearly, were trained to 
mechanic employments or to service on the sea. Moses Pearson, Isaac Ilsley, 
Peter Walton, Joiners ; John East, the Wailes and Jed. Preble, Mariners ; 
Wheeler, Benjamin Titcomb, &c., Blacksmillis. There were no idlers and loafers 



smith's Jonr.NAL. 139 

10. The Commissioners spent P. M. here. There is but very 
little company in town. 

in that day; he that did not work, could not cat : and it will be seen by the frequent 
references in Mr. Smith's Journal, that they were very often near the point of 
entire destitution in the common necessaries of life. The farming interest was so 
much neglected, that the people were almost entirely dependent on importations 
from the South, for their bread stuffs, and were frequently reduced to great want 
by precarious supplies. All our rich men, and all who have been rich men in this 
town, were either mariners or mechanics, or descendants from persons in those 
occupations. 

The inhabitants were a hardy, industrious, intelligent and enterprising race. 
They did not come here to live in ease, but to seize upon the rough materials of 
wealth, to bring forth the resources of a new country, and to make themselves inde- 
pendent. This not only required vigor and spirit, but generated and kept them up; 
and gradually a society was formed characterized by intelligence and a considerable 
degree of refinement. There were at the period of which we are speaking, the 
Moodys, Freeman, Longfellow, Fox, Waldo, Westbrook, Coffin, Gushing, John 
Wiswell, Noyes, beside the ministers. Smith and Allen, and their families, all men 
of good education, and several of them, as the first five and the ministers, liberally 
educated. These were able to infuse into the community a tone of improvement 
which gave force and elevation to this part of the Province. 

The outward condition of the people in their style of habitations and living, bore 
no comparison to the luxury of the present day. The buildings were all of wood, 
many of them but one story high, and generally unpainted; and so frail was their 
construction that I know of but three houses on the Neck now, which were erected 
prior to 1749; one is the Moody house on the corner of Congress and Franklin 
streets, two stories high, erected in 1740, by Enoch Moody, and now occupied by 
some of his descendants ; another, the Deering house, between Exchange and 
Lime Streets ; the other, a one story house in the rear of the brick block on 
Fore street, between Lime and Silver streets, erected by Benjamin Proctor. 
These three houses afford a fair specimen of the style of building of that day : 
the latter has not been touched by the hand of modern improvement ; the 
former, not sufficiently to mar their original proportions. The style of livmg, except 
in dress, was plain and simple, although I imagine better wines and liquors were 
generally used, than are now to be found, except on the tables of the rich : they 
were imported direct, and were unadulterated, and furnished at a less price than 
poor and drugged liquors are at present. Punch and flip were common drinks on 
all occasions that called people together ; committee meetings, trainings, ordina- 
tions, weddings and funerals, were alike improved to introduce copious libations of 
punch and wine. 

Considerable attention was paid to dress on all occasions which gave respite to 
the ordinary duties of life ; and those who were in the upper ranks of society, and 
those distinctions were far more regarded than at present, took good care to show 



140 smith's journal. 

14. Tlie Noriidgwock Indians came tliis morning. The treaty 
opened P. M. in the meeting house, 

16. The treaty was finished this evening. 

17. I dined with the Commissioners. The presents were 
delivered to the Indians. 

their superiority, by a display in this particular. The office or shop or warehouse, 
being closed, their occupants emerged in habits so different from those in which 
their labors were performed, that they could hardly be recognized : like actors 
upon a stage, a new character was assumed, and they strutted and played their 
parts in cocked hats, often laced, full bottomed wigs, ruffles at their necks and 
wrists, embroidered vests, rich small clothes with ornamented buckles at the knee 
and on their shoes, and gold headed canes; if the weather permitted, short scarlet 
cloaks were thrown over their shoulders. The ladies also had their own appro- 
priate costume : high headdresses, rich stomachers, brocade gowns of ample fold, 
with ruffles at their elbows and necks, high heeled shoes, and scarlet or crimson 
cloaks. This style, of course was confined to the rich, or those who coukl procure 
means to shine in it; others followed at respectful gradations, as their resources 
permitted. These articles were often imported from London. I find among Enoch 
Freeman's papers the following memorandum : " Feb. 12, 1755. Expenses Dr. 
to Samuel Waldo, Esq., for my scarlet Cloak and a scarlet Riding hood for my 
wife, as per his account, in a letter dated London, Oct. 18, 1754, with the trim- 
mings, &c. £U. One crimson Riding hood £4 9s. 9d., being £15 9s. 9d. sleriing, 
which is £20 13s., lawful money, and £154 17s. 6d. old tenor." "March 16. 
Nathaniel Coffin, for one pair leather Breeches, 24s.; one skin Shammy, 2s. 8d." 
Mr. Freeman has several charges in his books for red coats, red breeches, laced 
hats, &c. sold. 

Another striking comparison might be made in regard to the facilities for business 
and intercommunication between the old times and the new; but it will be suffi- 
cient to observe that there was no regular mail east of Portsmouth until 1760, and 
then but once a week. Previous to that time letters were kept until a sufficient 
number accumulated to bear the expense ; and were then transported either on the 
back of a man or a horse. And the only mode of travelling by land was either on 
horseback or on foot; and it required three or four days to perform the journey on 
horseback to Boston. I need not say what Rail roads and Steam boats and 
Magnetic Telegraphs are now doing for us and the world. There was then no 
newspaper published in Maine, and not until twenty-five years after, and not a 
printing press east of Boston. 

Space permits me to give but a mere glimpse at the general appearance of men 
and tilings here one hundred years ago : it will, I hope assist, in addition to what 
our Journal contains, to furnish means of a comparison between the two periods. 
No hundred years in the history of the world has probably been so full of stirring 
events, or produced such important developments in science and the arts, civil 
government and the freedom of person and thought, as the one now closing. 



SMITlfs JOURNAL. 141 

19. Peter sailed tliis morning with the Commissioners in 
Sanders. 

November. (On several Sabbaths in the course of this month, Mr, 
Smith complained of weakness of body and depression of mind.) 

December 3. Mr. Paddeshal kept Sabbath here, but did not 
preach. 

(Here closes the short Journal of a year, a year exempted from the 
distresses of war, and favored with a peace with the Norridgewock 
Indians, 

Although the extracts are few, the labor of the journalist was not 
diminished ; indeed it seems to have increiised, for the pages are 
fuller, although the subjects of them are not so generally interesting 
at the present day.) 

1750. 

Prefixed to the Journal for this year, is the following memo- 
randum : 

I was born the 10th of March, A. D. 1701—2. 

I was admitted into College, July, 1716. 

Took my first degree 1720. 

I began to preach April 19, 1722. 

I came to Falmouth June 22, 1725. 

I was ordained March 8, 1727. 

I was married September 12, 1728. 

My father died February 19, 1741—2. 

My wife October 1, 1742. 

I was married second time, March 1, 1743 — 4. 

Thomas wejit to Boston, April 12, and was bound (to Mr. ScoUey) 
for six years and nine months, July 3, 1750. ' 

William, went to Mr. Grant, Nov. 24, 1750. 

January 11. There has been a great uproar about the men that 
killed the Indians at Witchcassit, they having been rescued by some 
of our people from the officers, and to-day after surrendering them- 
selves to Capt. Bean, at Truck house, were carried to York. 

29. I sat out with Major Freeman for a ride (to York.) 

1. Thomas was born September 12, 1735; he afterwards became a merchant 
in town. William who was bound to Mr. Grant, died October 16, 1754, 



142 smith's .loiir.NAr,. 

Fehrvary 1. Mr. Lyman has been lately ordained at York. ' 

3 I rode home. 

22. A special Supreme Court at York for the trial of the men 
that killed the Indians. - 

. March 11. Sunday. I spake with vast ditHculty, and the popu- 
lace wonderfully slighted me. (As he thought.) 

15. Annual Fast. Had uncommon assistance, was an hour in 
each of the first prayers. Never was I darker and more discouraged 
before the day came ; my voice, freedom and fluency being all gone. 
I make a minute of it to record God's goodness, always to excite my 
thankfulness and trust in him. 

27. Parish meeting ; they raised my salary £50 to £700, some 
opposition ; though £800 was urged by several. ' 

April 2, This day the Province treasury is open, and silver is 

1. Isaac Lyman, settled over the First Parish in York, in 1749, as successor of 
the Rev. Samuel Moody who died Nov. 13, 1747, aged 72. He discharged the 
whole of the pastoral duties for near fifty years, when in 1798 the Rev. Rosewell 
Messenger was settled as his colleague. Mr. Lyman died in 1810 : he was from 
Connecticut, a graduate of Yale College m 1747, and father of Theodore Lyman, 
who became a distinguished and worthy merchant of Boston. 

2. A quarrel had taken place between the white settlers at Wiscasset and the 
Indians, December 2, 1749, in which an Indian was killed and two others badly 
wounded. This happening so soon after the conclusion of the treaty, produced 
great apprehension lest it should lead to renewed hostilities. The government 
therefore took immediate measures to conciliate the Indians. They caused three of 
the most guilty white men, Obadiali Albee, and Richard and Benjamin Holbrook to 
be taken into custody, and they were brought to Falmouth and placed under the 
care of Gowen Wilson. A mob soon after rescued them, but so great was the 
excitement on the occasion that they surrendered themselves to the Captain of the 
Truck house, as stated under January 11, and a special Court was appointed to 
try them at York. The trial did not take place until June, when Albee was 
acquitted, as Mr. Smith says below, agauist the opinion of the Court, which led the 
government to remove the others to the County of Middlesex, and to invite the 
friends of the deceased and injured m_en, to be present. The trial however did not 
take place there, and the prisoners were afterwards removed to York; but we have 
no record that they were ever convicted. Public sentiment was so strong against 
the Indians, that there was small hope of their obtaining justice from a jury even in 
a good cause. 

3. At this meeting Stephen Longfellow was first chosen Parish Clerk and held 
the office by annual election until 1773. 



smith's jouknal. 143 

given out for our Prpvince bills, which now cease to pass. This is 
the most remarkable epoch of this Province. Its affairs are now 
brought to a crisis. 

10. Mr, Roberts and Mr. Newman last week died suddenly. It 
is remarkable how many disastrous events and sudden deaths have 
been in this place within a year or two : this is the tenth. 

May 5. I have been drinking tar water for more than a week, and 
find myself surprisingly better ; the soreness of my vitals is gone, and 
I feel hardly any pain. 

27. Sunday. I fear I was too fervent, and I think greatly 
slighted, (This was an apprehension frequently expressed ; but 
from good reasons that might be offered, I think it was more 
imaginary than real.) 

Ju7ie 15. I rode to York. Albee was acquitted to the great 
surprise of the Court, who continued the other two prisoners to be 
removed for a trial elsewhere. This unhappy affair gives this 
country an ill name, and it is feared will bring on a war. 

21. Rode to Newbury. An epidemic cold prevails. 

25. Rode to Boston. It is a time of great perplexity and distress 
here on account of the sinking of the paper currency. There is a 
terrible clamor, and things are opening for the extremest confusion 
and difficulties. The merchants, shopkeepers and others in Boston, 
having for some years past, got money easily and plentifully by the 
abundance of that fraudulent and iniquitous currency, and abandoned 
themselves to the utmost extravagance and luxury in all their way of 
living, are now in a sad toss, and make outrageous complaints at the 
stop put to it by the late act. 

July 6. Mr. Tyng has been exceeding friendly to me as (I thank 
God) all my friends have been. 

14. There is news of a brig full of people gone to Penobscot to 
settle there. 

Augiist 31. There seems to be a dismal storm gathering. The 
Penobscot Indians are in arms, to the number of one hundred and 
fifty, and sixty Canada Indians came to join them, designing a blow. 
Families are moving from thence. A man-of-war of twenty guns is 
sent there from Boston. The French in a large brig were seen some 
time since going there. There were also. two more brigs with 
soldiers, warlike stores, &c, sailed from Lnuisburgh at tlic same tinif. 



144 smith's jouunal. 

There were two sixty and a thirty-six gun ship, twenty transports, 
and a ship with three hundred women. 

September 8. There was an alarm in the night at the tower occa- 
sioned hy an express from Richmond, that an Indian had told them 
that in forty-eight hours the Indians would break upon us, and that 
sixty Canada Indians were come to reinforce them. 

9. Sunday. Not a very full meeting ; the people fearing to 
come. 

10. We hear that on Saturday all Kennebec was in a blaze, a 
firing guns. People are universally moving to the garrison. 

11. All the talk is about the Indians, and various accounts and 
expresses. It is said some have been seen at Gorhamtown. 

13. We have news from Witchcasset that the Indians took (or 
killed) a man and a boy there to-day, and that a great fire was seen 
at Sheepscot, like the burning of the houses, and that the people 
heard alarm even to Pemaquid. 

14. A man was taken this week by the Indians at Macquoit, 
16. Sunday. Captain Wheeler died. ' 

18. Indians were discovered and pursued at Dunstable ; the same 
(I guess) that were on Wednesday last seen at Gorhamtown. 

20. The Quakers had a meeting at Proctor's, Training day to 
impress one hundred men here and at Scarborough, to scout from 
Saco to Georges— Muggridge's doings. The people are in a sad 
ferment. An unwarrantable and ill-concerted thing. 

22, Webb's son was taken at Marblehead (now Windham) by 
the Indians, 

1. Henry Wheeler : he came from Charlestown, Mass., and was admitted an 
inhabitant in 1729; he was a blacksmith by trade, and filled many important offices 
in town, such as Treasurer, Selectman and Justice of the Peace : he died in his 
58th year. His first wife Sarah, died in 1736, aged 41. The same year he 
married Mary, the widow of John East, and daughter of John Oliver, of Boston, 
who survived him and married for her third husband, James Gooding, in 1753. 
He occupied after his marriage with Mrs. East, her house at the foot of King street, 
near where the Weeks' house stands, which was destroyed in 1775. He left one 
son Henry who married Mary Lane. The second Henry left one son Henry, who 
married Mary, daughter of Major David Bradish, by whom he had one son also 
named Henry, and three daughters. The male descendants are all dead ; the three 
great grand daughters survive; one married Henry Ilsley, Jr., another Elbridge G. 
Waterhousc, the third is unmarried. 



smith's journal. 145 

23. Capt. Ilsley (who has the command of one of the companies, 
went into the woods to-day. 

26. The Indians are discovered ahnost every day, two or three 
together, in the back parts of the town. 

80. Mr. Roberts died, though perfectly well the night before : the 
sixteenth instance of a sudden death within two years. 

October. (A number of children died in the parish this month — 
five in one week.) 

November 16. I was at prayer with Quimby's child, which is sick 
of a fever, that first broke out at Gorhamtown, where it was quite 
epidemical, hardly any escaping. 

20. There are twenty-five persons sick at Gorhamtown garrison, 
four have died. 

24. The fever spreads now all over the parish. 

December 2. I have heard Capt. Preble was unusually affected. 

26. Mr. Lombard was ordained at Gorhamtown ; ' (ministers pres- 
ent, Loring, Smith, (who preached) Allen, Thompson and Morrill.) 

(The ministerial duties of Mr, Smith must have been arduous ; 
but he faithfully discharged them ; and though he was sometimes 
dissatisfied with himself, and feared that his people were so with him, 
yet he always gave them remarkable satisfaction.) 

1. Solomon Lombard : he was the first settled minister of the town. He was 
born at Truro, Mass., and graduated at II. C. in 1723; his ministry was not a very 
quiet one; a division in the Society took place in 1757, and in 1764 he was 
dismissed, and the Parish became reunited. Mr. Lombard was an active man in 
the affairs of the town, and in 1776 he was appointed one of the Justices of the 
Court of Commo]! Pleas, which office he held six years. lie died in 1781, the 
same year in which he rethed from the bench, quite advanced in years. He left a 
number of children scattered in ditlerent parts of the country. The Proprietors of 
Gorham, Sept. 19, 1750, voted to give hiui annually during his ministry £53 5s. 8d. 
In March, 1757, twenty-one of the inhabitants of Gorhain addressed a letter to the 
Proprietors against I\lr. Lombard's further continuance in the ministry with them, 
in which they say : "Our Rev. Pastor's conduct in the discipline of his Church, 
hath had such an evil tendency, it hath weaned our affections fiom him, and in a 
great measure spoilt his usetulness towards us: further, his common conduct 
seemeth to us to be very extraordinary in setting neighbors against neighI)or3, 
which keeps us in a fure of contention. And likewise he has taken upon him so 
much business which doth not concern the ministry, which gives us grounds to think 
that he is more for the tleecc than he is for the flock." These complaints led to 
the division of the Society above spoken of, and finally to iiis disinitision in 1764. 
19 



146 MVI!TH> JOURNAL. 

1751. 

January 24. Tliis winter (for its mildness) will go clown memo- 
rable to posterity. * 

February 14, I rode to Biddeford. 

16. Sat out for home, but my horse throwing mc out of the ferry 
boat into the water, I was obliged to go bade to Blr. Morrill's. I 
:^truck my face, and forehead especially, against a rock, wliich had it 
not been under water, would have dashed me to pieces. Ordered by 
the preserver of men. 

19. Came home. 

March 27. Attended Mr. Little's ordination. - 
April 19, We are alarmed with tidings of the Indians coming 
upon us. One was shot at by Mr, Haskell's negro, at Saccaribig, 

20, It is a sickly time at Scarborough. 

24. It is a melancholy time as ever the country knew. 1st. On 
account of the great convulsion and perplexities relating to a medium, 
some towns not having raised any money for public taxes, nor chosen 
officers. 2nd. With respect to a war with the Indians, 3rd. The 
epidemic fever. 4th, The coldness and wetness of the spring. 

May 7, I catechised the children on the Neck — about one 
hundred and thirty. 

11. Capt. Darling in a mast ship came in, 

June 8. Job Bunial was killed by the Indians on the road behind 
Capt. Merrill's, and his horse also, 

Jidy 10, It is a time of health, and therefore a time of leisure 
with me, 

27, We have news of the Indians taking seven persons on 
Wednesday last, at the New Meadows, viz : three Hinkleys, two 
Whitneys, Purrington and Lombard. 

31. The freshet has carried away many bridges, hay, &c,, on 

1, The extracts relative to the seasons at the end of the Journal fully corrobo- 
rate the statement here made. 

2. Rev. Daniel Little; this was the Kennebunk or Second Parish in Wells, 
now Kennebunk, Rev, Nathaniel H. Fletcher was settled as his colleague in 
1800. Mr. Little died suddenly in October, 1801. He was a native of Newbury, 
and was the first settled minister over the Kennebunk I'arisli. lie received the 
iionorary degree of A. INL irom IL C, in 176(5, and was a member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 



SMITirs JOURNAL, 147 

Presumpsrot river. Saccaribig bridge and the Presumpscot great 
dam broke. 

August 3, People are quite mad in town, there being fifty men 
pressed in Col. Cushing's regiment, and one hundred more to be 
pressed, to escort and protect the proposed treaty. 

19. I sailed for Boston in Wilson, log-laden with a tow of masts. 

23. We were becalmed off the Brewster till dark, and then a 
tempest arose northerly, and a dismal night, much to be remembered : 
may I never lose sight of the sense of it. 

24. Got to Boston, 30. Came away. 

31, Got into our harbor, sun near an hour high. 
September. (Nothing particular.) 
October. (Nothing that need be noticed.) 
November. (Pages less filled than usual, and less important.) 
December. (Fuller pages, but chiefly respecting ministerial duties.) 
(This year's journal notices but few events of much importance, 
the chief of which are enumerated the 24th April. The complaints 
of Mr. Smith, as to his health and spirits, were much fewer than for 
some years past.) 

1752. 

January 3. Walked over to Col. Cushing's on the ice, and might 
have rode in my sleigh, as I designed, but was discouraged. ' 

8. A pleuretic fever prevails (at Biddeford) and proves exceedingly 
and remarkably mortal. 

1. Col. Ezekiel Gushing lived in as much style as any person in town at that 
day, on the point at Purpoodock which bore his name. He was the son of Rev. 
Jeremiah Gushing, of Scituate, where he was born in 1698 : his mother was 
daughter of Thomas Loring, of Hingham. His first wife was a Doane, of 
Plymouth, by whom he had Loring, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Lucy, Hannah and Phebe. 
His second wife was widow Mary Parker, of Boston, daughter of Dommicus 
Jordan, of Gape Elizabeth, whom he married in 1746, and by whom he had three 
children, John, Thomas and Nathaniel. His wife by her previous marriage had 
four children, one of whom, Mary, married Gol. Cushing's son, Loring, some of 
whose children are now living among us. Loring was a graduate of H. C. in the 
class of 1741, and died in 1778. Col. Gushing was a merchant in extensive busi- 
ness, both in the West India trade and the Fisheries : he held also important offices 
in town, and was Colonel of the Regiment in the county, which was the highest 
military office in Maine. He died in 1765. His daughter Lucy married James 
Otis, of Scituate, and Hannali, Charles Robinson. 



14S smith's journal. 

14. (Mr. Smith here gives an account of an excursion witli his 
wife and others to North Yarmouth and Brunswiclc on the ice, passing 
over Harrisicket Bay in going, and venturing on their return to come 
directly from Brunswick across the Bay without Macquoit Island to 
New Casco, and over thence to the Beach home.) ^ 

Last night there was a smart southerly wind which hrought in a 
swell and broke the ice, and the ebb tide carried it away, so that the 
harbor is all open as high as across Capt. Pearsons' to Sawyer's 
Dock, and where the people were passing yesterday — and where 
teams and horses might have passed, there is no ice. 

Fehriiary 6. Rev. Mr. JefTerds of Wells, died last Saturday of the 
pleuretic fever which prevails there. 

March 24. We hear the small pox spreads at Boston, past all 
hope of stopping it. 

28. It is thought some thousands have been inoculated this week 
in Boston. 

April 8. I sat sail for Boston in Goodwin. 

10. Arrived. 

14. All business is laid aside in town. The streets desolate, 
many of the shops shut up, and the people universally spend their 
time to attend the sick. 

16. It is said there are three thousand now inoculated, t A 
harvest time to the Doctors. 

23. All the talk in all companies is about inoculation ; the town 
sadly divided about it. 

25. I came away from Boston. 

28. When I left Boston, twenty-one had died that had been 
inoculated; i. e. about one per cent. Sixteen died of about ninety in 
the common way ; i. e. about one in six. 

29. Got home. 

May 4. Capt. Sanders had a man on board sick of the small 
pox. 

* This will give the reader an idea of extreme cold weather ; but the winter of 
1696, 13 said " to be colder than has been known in New England since the lirst 
arrival of the English. During a great part of it, sleighs and loaded sleds passed 
on the ice from Boston as far as Nantaskct. F. 

t Holmes says, 2109, of whom 31 died; 55-14 had it in the naturp.l way. of 
whom 514 died. The total number of inhabitants in, Boston was 17.574. F. 



smith's-- journal. 149 

Jinic 1(3. At M^ells, the town concurred with tiie Church in tlic 
choice of Mr. Fairweathcr. ' 

July 2. PuUic Fast on account of the s^niall pux and fevei' 
prevailing. 

By contrihution we gathered X47 10s., O. T., for the poor of 
Boston. 

Aug2tst. (There is but little in this month besides an account of a 
journey with his wife to Boston from 11th to 25th. The design of 
the journey was a visit to Mr. Plaisted, at York, who with his wife 
have been very ill a great while.) 

September 2. I rode with Major Freeman and Peter to Marble- 
head (Windham) a pigeoning; we got near ten dozen. 

Mem. jNew Style by Act of Parliament took place the third of 
this month, which shortened it eleven days. (The days are 
numbered 1, 2, 14, &c.) 

October 24. The Commissioners (viz. Col. Wendall, Capt. Watts, 
Judge Russell and Mr. Hubbard) having been to Georges and ratified 
the Peace, put in here, and I dined and spent the day with them. ^ 

November 16. Public Thanksgiving. I could not speak in 

1. Rev. Samuel Fayervveather, was a graduate of H. C. 1743. He was iiQt 
settled in consequence of the violent opposition of the minority. The Council 
advised that " Mr. Fayervveather lovingly and peaceably part;" and at the same 
time " bore testimony to his clear and unblemished character," and " against the 
heat and uucharitableness " of the minority. 

2. At this Conference, which was attended by a representation from the Penob- 
scot, the St. John and the Norridgewock. tribes, the treaty made at Falmouth in 
1749, was confirmed. In the speech of Louis, the Chief of the Penobscots, occurs 
this remarkable language : "There has of late mischief been done among us; but 
now we are all come to bury it. In order whereto, we are for proceeding upon 
Gov. Dummer's treaty, by which it was concluded, that the English should inhabit 
the lands as far as the salt water flowed, and no further; and that the Indians 
should possess the rest. Brethren : As I said before, so I now say, that the lands 
we own, let us enjoy; and let nobody take them from us. We said the same to 
those of our own religion, the French. Although we are a black people, yet 
God hath planted us here; God gave us this land, and we will keep it. God 
decreed all things; He decreed this land to us; therefore neither shall the French 
nor English possess it, but we will." 

The Commissioner Capt. Watts, was Samuel, the father of Dr. Edward Watts, 
who aftei-wards settled in this t<3wn; he was then Judge of the Court of Comnion 
Pleas, for Suflblk County, and lived in Chelsea. 



150 smith's JOIfRNAI.. 

sermon and c;ave the blessing without the last singing. I am quite 
discouraged. Mem. I hear the sermon was uncommonly admired by 
strangers and others. 

[See an ohscrvatio7i at the end of the year 1750.) 
(From the paucity of extracts this year, it is not to be concluded 
that the entries were few ; for they were nearly as minute and 
numerous as common, though not so interesting. Domestic concerns, 
social interviews with his friends, official duties and accounts of the 
seasons, &c., furnished sufficient matter to fill the pages of this year's 
journal.) 

1753. 

January 25. Our two School masters (Mr. Longfellow and Mr. 
Wiswell) opened their schools on Monday, 22nd. ' 

1. For a notice of ]Mr. Longfellow, see page 118. Mr. Wiswell was born in 
Boston, the son of John Wiswell who kept the Grammar School there. He 
graduated at H. C. in 1749, and pursued the study of Divinity as a Congrcga- 
tionalist, in which order he was settled over the New Casco Parish, in Falmouth, in 
1756. In 1761, he married Mercy Minot, of Brunswick, daughter of John Minot, 
afterwards Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, by whom he had several 
children. In 1764 he changed his religious views, and accepted the invitation of 
the Episcopalians upon the Neck, who had just established the first Episcopalian 
Society which existed in town, and immediately went to England to receive ordina- 
tion. The same year his Society erected a church for him on the corner of Church 
lane and Middle street, which was completed the next year. Mr. Wiswell 
returned in May, 1765, and continued to preach to his people, respectable in 
number and character, until the breaking out of the Revolution, when his church 
was burnt, and his flock who were generally opposed to the separation from the 
mother country, were scattered abroad. The success of this secession from the 
Old Parish, was a sore grievance to its worthy pastor, which caused him often to 
break out in sad lamentations, as we shall see in many parts of his diary. 

Mr. Wiswell, driven from the country, went to England in 1775, where he 
officiated a portion of the time as a Curate. At the close of the war, he established 
himself at Cornwallis, in Nova Scotia, at the earnest solicitation of some of his 
former Parishioners, who had settled at that place. There he died in 1812, leaving 
two sons, one of whom, Peleg, born here in 1763, was appointed a Judge of the 
Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in 1816, and died at Annapolis in 1836, leaving 
several children. 

Mr. Wiswell when he lived on the Neck, occupied a house which stood on the 
corner of Middle and Exchange streets, and was then painted red. The house is 
now standing, moved a little east to the corner of Lime street, and belongs to James 
Deerijig. 



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Februm-y 27. Last night, ^lajor Freeman's Warehouse was 
consumed by lire. 

It is a time of dismal scarcity for bread. 

March 14. We are relieved from the distress for want of bread, a 
a sloop and schooner having arrived, (with a supply of corn, 1 
suppose.) 

April 10. We have an epidemic illness prevailing, called the 
rash. Thank God, it is in so few instances mortal. 

27. I am incessantly every day, except yesterday, at prayer with 
the sick. 

Maij 22. Capt. Preble was chosen Representative. ' 

Jioie. (The journal of a trip to Boston from 14th to 18th, takes 
up the chief of the page for that month. The rest of it has nothing 
material.) 

Jvly. (I need not make any extracts from the journal of this month.) 

August 11. Gov. Shirley returned from England, where he had 
been about four years. 

September. Less matter, and less of it for extracts, in the journal 
of this month than usual.) 

October 2. I went in a whaleboat to Mericoneag, " with our three 
young Deacons. * 

1. This was Jedediah, afterwards beUer known as Gen. Preble. 

2. Harpswell was formerly called Mericoneag Neck. 

*Who these three "young Deacons" were, I don't know. It appears l)y the 
Records of the Church, that the following persons were appointed to that office at 
the times here mentioned, viz : " Sanniel Cobb, 1727; Henry Wheeler, Benjamin 
York, 1729; Samuel Moody, William Cotton, 1744; James Milk, Samuel Cobb, 
Jr., 1751 ; Nathaniel G. Moody, Benjamin Titcomb, 1769 ; Richard Codman, 
Samuel Freeman, 1781; Woodbury Storer, 1799. F. 

I will add to Mr, Freeman's note the time of the decease of the Deacons as 
far as I have been able to ascertain. Sanuiel Cobb died in 17()fi ; Henry Wheeler 
in 1750, Dr. Samuel Moody, at Brunswick, Sept. 22, 1758; Wm. Cotton, 1768; 
James Milk, 1772; Samuel Cobb, Jr. removed from the Parish previous to 1769; 
Nathaniel Green Moody was son of Dr. Samuel Moody, and '..oni Feb. 3, 1726 — 
he moved from town previous to 1782; Benjamin Titcomb died 1798; Richard 
Codman, 1793 ; Samuel Freeman, 1831 ; Woodbury Storer, 1825. In 1825, 
Thomas Freeman and Joseph Harrod were chosen Deacons. ]\Ir. Freeman 
died in 1847, and Mr. Harrod having removed from town, IMcssrs. John Puring- 
ton, George Bartol and Bezaleel Cushman were chosen to llial office in lt<47, 
and continue to diiciiargo tlic duties. 



152 smith" t) JOURNAL, 

28. Sunday. Not a full meeting P. M. 1 was earnest and 
blundered in reading my notes, and was, perhaps, vapory, and thought 
the people slighted me mucli, though my wife does not think so. 
(I make this extract to confirm a sentiment I have before expressed.) 
Nocember 1. Annual Thanksgiving ; had great assistance. 

23. Capt. Ross brought his family to live here. * 

24. Capt. S. Waldo came here. 

26. New Casco was voted off a Parish. 

December 8. Dined at Deacon Cotton's ; had a splendid enter- 
tainment. ^ 

13. I reckoned up the families of the Parish, and there were three 
hundred and two, and New Casco being set off (sixty-two families) 
there remains two hundred and forty, one hundred and twenty of 
whom are on this Neck, eight on the Islands, twenty-one on Back 
Cove, forty-eight in Stroudwater Parish, including Long Creek, and 
the remaining scattered on Presumpscot and Back-of-the-Cove 
families, and in Purpoodock, three hundred families. In the whole 
town five hundred families. ^ 



1. Alexander Ross : he was born m Stroma, Scotland, October 19, 1717, and 
died here Nov. 24, 1768. He left one daughter who married the late Col. Wm. 
Tyng, and died without issue. Mr. Ross, and Col. Tyng after him, occupied the 
house now standing on the corner of Middle and Franklin streets, as you pass into 
Fore street, which was moved from York street, having been previously owned 
and occupied by Stephen Jones. It was spared in the conflagration of the town in 
1775, as it was said, in favor of Col. Tyng, who was a loyalist. Mr. Ross was a 
merchant in very extensive business, engaged m several large ships which trans- 
ported masts and lumber to England and Scotland. His wife was a Scotch lady, 
born in the Orkneys, 1721 , named Elizabeth Duguid. She lived many years at 
Gorham, after the war, and died there March 1, 1798. 

2. Deacon Cotton lived on Fore street near where Cotton street now enters it, 
and here he had a large tanning establishment ; his land extended up to where 
Free street has since been opened, which was then a swamp. 

3. The number of families set down for Purpoodock, is too large; it makes his 
•whole number 602, instead of 500 ; it probably should be 200. In 1749 the Parish, 
which then comprehended the whole of Cape Elirabeth, petitioned to be incorpo- 
rated as a separate town, and stated in their petition that their precinct was ten 
miles in length, about five miles in breadth and contained about 150 flimilies. In 
1745, their rateable polls which included all males of sixteen years and upwards, 
VMS 198; this indicates a population of al)out 1000. While on the Neck, which 
was small in territory compared with Cape Elizabeth, it did not probably exceed 
750. Thf error was probably occasioned m transcribing from the original journal 



* smith's journal. 153 

(Sex'eral presents made to Mr. Smith, are mentioned in the journal 
for this month ; and I would observe, that generally speaking, such 
notices are common in every month of the year.) 

1754. 

January 11, I rode to Dough ty's and prayed. They have lost 
three children of the throat distemper, a fourth is very dangerous, 

Fehriiary 26. 1 sat out with my wife and Peter for York. 

27, Mr. Richardson was ordained at Wells, I began with prayer. 
Mr. Loring preached. ' 

March 13, I got home well. I have every where in ray journey 
met with great kindness and respect. 

19. We are now raising six companies of soldiers (making 
collectively eight hundred) to cover the eastern frontiers, the Indians 
having lately appeared surly and threatening at Richmond, and the 
Government being apprehensive they design to break upon us. The 
new settlement of the Plymouth patent is the provocation. ^ 

1. Rev. Gideon Richardson : he was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts ; 
graduated at H. C. 1749, and died in 1758. 

2. The disputes with the Indians of late years had arisen from the constant 
encroachments which tlie English made upon the fishing sites and liunting grounds 
of the Aborigines. They foimd themselves 3'ear after year, narrowed in the range 
of their excursions, by the settlements of the foreign races, which were extending 
along the whole coast and up all the navigable rivers. At this period particularly, 
the owners of the New Plymouth patent, claiming all the land from Kennebec river 
to the Sheepscot, and as high up as Norridgewock, were nuiking unusual efforts to 
occupy and improve their property. This led to loud and repeated complaints on 
the part of the Indians. In a conference which they held with Gov. Shirley's 
Commissioners at Fort Richmond, in the town of Richmond, on the Kennebec, 
they firmly contended that the English should not go higher up the river than that 
point. They say — " Here is a river belonging to us : you have lately built a new 
garrison here : we wish you would be content to go no further up the river than 
that fort. We live wholly by this land and live but poorly : the Penobscots hunt 
on one side of us, and the Canada Indians on the other side ; therefore do not 
turn us off this land. We are willing you should enjoy all the lands from the new 
fort and so downwards." 

And when the Commissioners exhibited Indian deeds of the land above, they 
denied any knowledge of such conveyances. Ongewasgone said — " I am an old 
man, and never heard any of them (his ancestors) say these lands were sold." 
And they all said what was probably too true — " We don't think these deeds are 
false, but we apprehend you got the Indians drunk, and so took the advantage of 
tlieni, when you bought the lauds." 
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lo4 smith's journal, 

April 4. Annual Fast. Had wonderful assistance, spoke easy 
and in high spirits. Thank God who has appeared to help me last 
Sabbath and to day. 

3Iai/ 6. ?Ir. Allen died. ' 

9. Was buried. 

22. Sailed to day for Cape Ann. 

27. Got to Boston. 

June 13. Returned from Boston. 

18. We have been painting and fitting up our house for the 
treat}' which is approaching. 

21. The Norridgewock Indians came here ; forty-two in all and 
twenty-five men. 

24. Several of the transports, that have the soldiers from 
Kennebec, got in to day. 

25. Eight hundred soldiers got in and encamped on Bangs' 
Island. 

26. The Governor (Shirley) got in this morning. P. M. came on 
shore, lodges at JMr. Fox's. " 

27. The Govermnent dined in the Court Chamber. 

The Indians could not but perceive that the advance of the white man, with his 
plough, his musket and his superior arts and cultivation, was gradually abridging 
the privileges and resources of the sons of the forest, while that great scourge, rum, 
which has ever to their unqualified sin and shame, followed in their train, was as 
surely abridging their numbers and their hopes. In the conference referred to, afler 
the other business was finished, the Chief said — "I would say one word more. 
Our young men are very apt to get drunk > we desire you would give orders to 
Capt. Lithgow, not to let any one of them have any more rum than one quart in 
two days '." Sad indeed was the state of public sentiment, when government had 
to be appealed to by these mifortunate men, in this wise. 

1. Rev. Benjamin Allen, of Cape Elizabeth. He was bom at Tisbury, on 
Martha's Vineyard; graduated at Yale College in 1708; settled at South Bridge- 
water, Massachusetts, 1718, where he continued about ten years : he was installed 
at Cape Elizabeth, Nov. 10, 1734, and died at the age of 65. He had several 
daughters, one of whom married Rev. Mr. Upham, of Barnstable County; another, 
Rev. Mr. Emery; a third, Clement Jordan, Esq., of Cape Elizabeth; a fourth, 
Tristam Jordan, Esq., of Saco, and a fifth died mmiarried at Cape Elizabeth. 

2. Jabez Fox : he occupied about the best house in town ; it was situated on 
Exchange street near where Mr. Cory's Furniture Ware House now is. It had 
formerly been occupied by Phineas Jones, whose widow Mr. F<jj£ married, and was 
built by Benjamin lugersoU. 



smith's journal. 155 

28. Yesterday and to day we had a vast concourse dined with us, 
at our own expense. I dined with the Governor. 

29. The Government yesterday met the Norridgewock Indians, 
and to day proposed to them the building of the Fort at Teuconic. * 

30. Sunday. Parson Brockwell preached A. M. and carried on 
in the Church form. ^ I preached P. M, 

July 1. The Norridgewock Indians gave their answer, and refuse 
the Forts being built at Teuconic. 

2. The treaty was signed between the Governor and the Norridge- 
wock Indians. 

I dined with the Governor. Mr. Thompson, Elvin and twenty 
others dined with us at my expense. 

3. The Indians had their dance. Three young men of the 
Norridgewock tribe went to Boston, and the rest returned home. 

5. The Penobscot Indians came (fifteen men) and the Government 
met them in the Meeting house. 

6. The treaty was finished. Seven gentlemen went up the Bay, 
and others to Boston. ^ 

8. The ship sailed with Mr. Danforth, Oliver, Bourn and 
Hubbard from us, and the whole body of Representatives. 

9. Mr. Langdon and Dr. Dearborn here. I paid the latter £252 
for John's living with him. * 



1. This was sometimes called Toconoc, and Ticonic, and is the Indian name 
for the falls and territory at Waterville and Winslow. The old grievance is a^ain 
raised of extending the English settlements and garrisons up the river. The fort 
was built the same year on the point at the mouth of the Sebasticook river, notwith- 
standing the objections of the Indians. It was called Fort Halifax, from the Earl 
of K.'difax, and a portion of it was standing a few years ago, and I believe is now. 

2. Charles Brockwell, Rector of King's Chapel, now Stone Chapel, Boston ; 
he was mducted 1747, and died Aug. 20, 1755. 

3. This conference was probably the occasion of more parade and display than 
had ever before been exhibited in the town. The Governor was accompanied by 
Col. Mascarene,Com'r from Nova Scotia, Mr. Dummer, formerly Lieut. Governor 
Gen. Winslow, Commander of the troops, with many other gentlemen connected 
with the government; and a larger force than had ever before encamped m town. 
A portion of the troops, viz., 500, proceeded up the Kennebec to construct Fort 
Halifax. 

4. Dr. Benjamin Dr .rborn, of Portsmouth : he died in April, 17o5. Mr 
Smith's son John, studied medicine with liim natil hig dciTth, a:;.l then \\i\\\ Dr. 



156 SMITHS jouhnal. 

14. Sunday. Mr. Brockwell preached ; ho gave cTcat offence as 
to his doctrine. Our fishermen are all fled home, alarmed with the 
news of a French war proclaimed at Halifax. 

17. The Governor went to North Yarmouth and returned at 
night. 

19. I dined with the Governor. The Governor drank tea with 
us. The ships returned. Mr. Wheelwright, Lincoln and Minot of 
the Council ; Hancock and others. 

23. The Governor dined at Col. Cushing's ; the rain prevented me. 

28. Mr. ErAvin came to town, and Mr. Storer who lodged with 
us. Capt. Osborn sailed for Boston, having paid me near £100 for 
my house. 

August 30. * The Governor and the gentlemen with him sailed 
in Sanders for Kennebec, to visit Cushnoc and Teuconic Forts. * 

September 3. The Governor returned from Kennebec. 

8. The Governor sailed with Col. Masquerene, Mr. Brockwell, 
Mr. Wheelwright, Richmond, Gerrish, Minot and Price. 

Thus ended a summer's scene of as much bluster as a Cambridge 
Commencement, and now comes on a vacation when our house and 
the town seems quite solitary. 

Sargent, of Portsmouth. He afterwards went into practice here and kept an 

Apothecary shop in Company with his brother Thomas. He died in 1773. 

The following is a copy of the agreement for John's education : " A Memorandum 

of the Heads of an Agreement made this 10th Day of 17.55, Between the 

Rev. Mr. Thomas Smith of Casco, and Dr. Nathaniel Sargent of Portsmouth, viz., 

That John Smith son of the said Mr. Thomas Smith is to live with said Sargent 

four years and an Half, to be instructed by said Sargent in the Practice of Physic 

and Surgery, to have his Meat, Drink, Wasliing and Lodging During said Term 

and he to improve his Time for the use of said Sargent, and at the Expiration of 2 

years the said Mr Thomas Smith to pay said Sargent £290 in the Public Bills of 

Credit of the Province of N. Hampshire, according to their vulue or worth this day, 

or Dollars equal thereto; and 390 more at the Expiration of said Term. If said 

Sargent, or said Jno. Smith should die before the Expiration of said Term, then 

said Sargent or his Heirs to be paid in Proportion to the Time they continue 

together. In Witness whereof the Parties to these Presents iiave interchangably 

set to their Hands the Day and year above written. 

NAT. SARGENT. 

1. This should be July 30. 

* He went forty miles above Norridgewock, but found no French Fort. He 
erected one at Teuconic wliich was named Foit Halifax, another at Cushnoc 
numcd Fort Weston. — M'Jiot. V. Cuslinoc is Augusta 



smith's TOur.xMAL. 157 

12. I attended a Fast at Purpoodock preparatory to the settlement 
of a minister, (other ministers, Thompson, Morrill and Lombard.) 

October 5. I have spent a good deal of time at Court to hear the 
case between the Plymouth and the Pejepscot Proprietors. Gridley 
for the former, Otis for the latter. ' 

7. I set out on a journey to Portsmouth. 

12. Returned. 

16. The church at Purpoodock made choice of Mr. Holyoke to 
be their minister, by a majority of one vote. * 

21. I had the melancholy tidings to day that my son William 
died last Wednesday night. 

1. These proprietors had waged a paper war sometime before they carried their 
controversy into Court. It related to the bounds of their respective grants on the 
Kennebec river. Pamphlets were published on each side, in which personal abuse 
was not spared. The controversy was not ended until 1766, when a compromise 
was effected, and a line of division agreed upon. But in regard to the true running 
of the compromise line, disputes afterwards arose which were not decided until 
after the present century came in. An interesting account of the Plymouth 
Company and its trials, prepared by R. II. Gardiner, Esq., may be found in the 
second volume of the Maine Hist. Coll. The Counsel named in the journal, were 
Jeremiah Gridley, a distinguished lawyer of Boston, and Attorney General of 
Massachusetts, who died Sept. 10, 1767; and the still more distiguished Jame.s 
Otis, whose efforts for the rights of the Colonies were among the earliest and most 
efficient movements of the revolution. 

2. 5hzur Holyoke : he graduated at H. C. 1750; he did not accept the invita- 
tion referred to, on account of the division in the Society; there was a majority of 
but one in the Church, and two in the Society for his settlement. A feud had for a 
long time existed in the Parish relative to Church government and order; a portion 
were sturdy Presbyterians from Scotland, or Scotch Irish, while the other part 
were Congregationalists. We shall hear more about them hereafter. Mr. Holyoke 
afterwards settled in Boxford, Mass. where he married Hannah Peabody, in 1760, 
and died in 1807. 

We find in Enoch Freeman's diary the following items which show the fashion of 
the time: "1754, Feb. 25. Sundry accounts Dr. to Jonathan Lambert, viz: 
Samuel Solley, Esq., for shaving, 12. 6d. Expense for James' wig, ^9. Samuel's 
do. £9. Mending my old thick wig, 10s. Shaving my three sons at times £,b 14s. 
Shaving myself four years to March 31 ne.xt at £6 — £24." The three sons were 
Samuel, aged eleven years; James nine and a half and William, seven years, and 
the shaving must have been of then heads to make room for the absurd wig. In 
the same diary, under 1755, I find the following entry: "April. Moses Pe;irson, 
Esq., for seven pairs men's gloves for Mr. Fox's funeral, at 2s. 8d., delivered 
Eunice Pearson." 



l.'>8 SMITHS .lOIIKNAI,. 

The Parish at Purpoodock concurred with the Church by a 
majority of two votes. 

November 5. A smart storm with a dekige of rain and thunder 
and lightning in the night. N. B. There has been the least thunder 
the summer past that has been for years. 

December 8. Sunday. The W 's make a wretched practice 

of spending P. M. together with others, carousing. 

15. Purpoodock Parish is in a sad situation, dismally divided and 
quarreling. 

1755. 

January 16. Peter began to keep school on the Neck. ' 
February 2. Several of our people went over to Purpoodock to 
hear Mr. Clark. 

14. Justice Noice died this evening." 



1. His son Peter; he graduated at H. C. 1753; settled in the ministry at 
Windham, Sept. 22, 1762, as successor of the Rev. John Wight who died in 1754; 
previous^to which, he had supphed the pulpit there several years. He continued in 
the ministry until 1790, when he was dismissed by mutual consent. For further 
particulars see biographical notice of his father, page 26. 

2. Joseph Noyes : I suppose him to have been the son of Cutting Noyes, of 
Newbury, and born m that place January 21, 1689. He was married before he 
came here, the precise time of which I cannot ascertam; it was not far from 17.30. 
in 1739, he was Town Treasurer, Selectman four years previous to 1744,,and an 
officiating Magistrate many years. He was a man of property and influence and 
lived at the eastern end of Back Cove, adjoining Mr. Ilsley's farm, a portion of 
which is now occupied by some of his descendants. His children weiP Josiah, 
Peter, Jane married to Merrill, DorotJnj to Little, and Hannah to James Lunt, in 
1743, who then lived in Newbury, but afterwards moved here. He gave to Josiah 
by will, the flirm at the western end of Back Cove, which he had bought of 
Zachariah Brackett, on which Josiah then lived, and which is now owned and 
occupied by James Deering. Josiah married Mary Lunt, of Newbury, in 1737, 
by whom he had Hannah, born October 27, 1738; Joseph, L^in 1745; Moses, and 
Sarah married to Moses Lunt, 1773. He was a respectable and useful man; was 
nine years Representative to the General Court. Josiah's son Joseph married 
Mary Stickney, 1767, and died 1795, leaving Jacob, Ann married to David Hale, 
Betsey married to Capt. Wm. Lowell, and Josiah lost at sea. Moses married 
Abigail Thomes in 1768, and lived on Congress street, in a story and a half house, 
near Brown street, v>'u'h is still occupied by some of his descendants. Jacob, son 
of Joseph, mar. '3d Ann Jones, daughter of Pearson Jones, in March, 1798, and 
had Joseph C, William, Edward F., Julia A., Elizabei'i F., Enoch and George F. 



8MITH S JOUKNAL, 159 

March 10. I received a letter from the Secretar^^ informing me 
that the Governor and Council had warned me to preach the Election 
sermon. 

April 7. Mr. Fox died last night. ^ 



Jacob died June 20, 1820, aged .52, his widow afterwards married Cotton B. 
Brooivs, and is still residing iiere with inost'of her children. 

Joseph's son, Peter, married Hannah Merrill in 1752, and had Amos, Hutch- 
inson, and Jane married to Joseph Lunt in 1TS5. 

James Lunt who married Hannah, daughter of the first Joseph, moved here from 
Newburj' and settled at Back Cove. His children were Benjamin, Amos, Joseph 
and James. Benjamin lived on his father's homestead; Amos lived and died in 
Brunswick; Joseph lived and died in Falmouth, and Col. James in Portland. 

1. Jabez Fox. Mr. Fox was the second son of the Rev. John Fox, of Woburn, 
Mass., where he was born in 1705. He graduated at H. C. in 1727; his mother 
was Mary Tyng, a grand daughter of Thaddeas Clark and Elizabeth Mitton, who 
was grand daughter of George Cleeves, our first settler; so that the Fox family, 
the descendants of Jabez, combine the blood of our first settler with that of John 
Fox, author of the " Book of Martyrs." The Brackett family have also the blood 
of the first settler tlrrough Aime Mitton, another grand daughter of Cleeves. Mr. 
Fox prepared for the ministry, but his health not permitting him to preach, he 
abandoned the profession. He resided here as early as 1743, in which year he 
married Ann Bradbury, daughter of Wymond Bradbury and Mariah Cotton, of 
York, who were grand parents of Judge Theophilus Bradbury. She died August 
5, 1746 — without issue. The next year he married Ann, the widow of Phineas 
Jones, whose maiden name was Hodge, from Newbury. By her he had four 
children; Betsey, horn Feb. 17, 1748, died Jan. 14, 1750; John, born Sept. 5, 
1749, for many years a respectable merchant in town, and father and grand father 
of the two generations now in active life here; William, born November 9, 1754, 
died 1755, and his twin, Manj, who married Edward Oxnard, October 11, 1774, 
and whose children are now among us. 

Mr. Jabez Fox was one of the most respectable of our citizens and filled many 
important oflices. He was five or six years representative to the General Court, 
three years, 1752, 1753 and 1754, member of the Governor's Council, the first 
taken from this part of Maine, and was a useful magistrate. His death was 
seriously felt in this community. His widow died June 9, 1758, aged 43. 

I have a manuscript volume before me wliich belonged to Mr. Fox, in which are 
entered prayers for various occasions, such as the death of friends, Sabbath and 
communion exercises, his marriages, birth and death of his children, his appoint- 
ments as Justice of the Peace and member of the Council, on the loss of his sloop, 
&c. He seems to have noticed every event with prayer. Previous to his second 
marriage he says : " Before I set out on my journey, by the Divine leave, to enter 
into a marriage covenant with my second wife, which was about four months after 
the death of my first wife, I tliink it my duty in a solemn manner to enter into the 



160 smith's journal. 

25. Mr. Clark, who returned to Purpoodock on Tuesdaj-, gave his 
answer to day. 

30. Mr. Moss was ordained at Berwick. ' This is a day much to 
be remembered. The Indians having done mischief upon it, viz., 
killed the Peales, Briant and family at Gorhamtown. 

Maij S. There was a Council at Purpoodock to day, Mr. Loring 
Hovey, Morril and myself, with delegates. ~ 

15. We have news that the Indians on Tuesday last, took two 
men and burnt a house at Frankfort. 

18. Sunday. Thin meeting, many having gone yesterday, and 
fearing to be pressed, to Sebago, and New Boston (now Gray), a 
report alarming us of the latter's being destroyed. 

22. Our forces sailed from Boston for Siganecto* with a fair 
wind. 

same covenant with the Great God, as I did before I sat out on my journey to 
marry my first wife." Previous to this is the following meditation: "Almighty 
God having, in his just and holy Providence taken from me my dear wife, I think 
it my duty, by the Divine leave, to endeavor to repair my loss by looking out lor 
another wife. I would therefore earnestly look up to God to give me another 
companion ; that he would be graciously pleased to give me a good tempered, 
industrious notable wife, but above all, a religious woman; this is what crowns all : 
Lord du-ect me in my choice of one." 

The last entries which Mr. Fox made in his memorandum book, are the 
following : " Directions about my funeral. Let the law be strictly observed : six 
pairs of gloves for the Bearers and one pair for Mr. Smith : let there be no rings 
given after the funeral is over : let my coffin be plain, but decent ; decent grave 
stones set up about my grave. 

I was born May 25, 1705, and would have been 50 years old if I h.ad lived until 
next May. Lord ! I have but one petition and one request to make; that is, that 
I may not experience a change by death, until I have experienced a change by 
Grace." 

1. Rev. John Morse, graduated at H. C. 1751, and died in 1764. 

2. Mr. Waite was the delegate from the Church on the Neck. The vote of the 
Church was, " Voted to assist in Council at Purpoodock upon account of the 
divisions relating to the settlement of Mr. Clark, at the desire of Christopher Strout, 
Robert Thorndike and Sanniel 8killings, Jr., in the name of the aggrieved brethren. 
Mr. Smith adds : N. B. Tlierc was a coalition of the Council called by the 
aggrieved brethren and that called by the brethren to install Mr. Clark (fifteen 
Churches in all) who voted upon the exceptions taken against Mr. Clark, not to 
install him." 

'^ Chicauecto hi the Bay of Fundy. 



smith's journal. 161 

25. We have news from Sheepscot that five men were taken 
there by the Indians, ploughing, and that two escaped. 

20. We have news that one Snow was found killed by the 
Indians on the back of North Yarmouth, and another man, (with 
him) taken. 

June 27. News comes of the Fort at Chicanecto being taken, 
after a conflict of about an hour. We lost but four men. * There 
were in our army 2270, all New England men, except 270, who were 
the King's regulars, 

28. Tliere is a French fleet of fifteen sail upon the coast, and an 
English fleet dogging them that have taken two seventy gun ships. 

July 3. Public Fast on occasion of various expeditions against 
French forts. 

7 to 16. (On a journey to and from Portsmouth.) 

17. We have news of a second English squadron arriving at Cape 
Sable shore. 

18. One Winter here, of Boston, in favor of Clark, the former a 
bad man and belied very much among the people at Purpoodock, who 
are in a dreadful mad temper. 

30. We went to Purpoodock where was a grand Council of fifteen 
Churches. (Here they are enumerated.) 

31. The Council continued. Messrs. Rogers and Elvins only 
were for installing Mr. Clark, and ten other ministers against it, we 
had close hot work through the whole. In the close of this day the 
Council had like to have been broken to pieces, about voting by 
Churches. 

August 1. The Council spent the two days past in hearing the 
facts. Spent this in summing up the evidence, and in the evening 
voted not to install Mr. Clark, there being twenty-three votes against 
it and eighteen for it, and two neuters, Mr. Wise and Mr. Langdon. 

The result was read this morning and the Council dispersed. 

7. We have news which confirms the first news. (I have not 
observed that this was mentioned before,) viz : General Braddock's 
being killed with twenty-four more officers and thirty-five wounded 
(twenty only escaping unhurt) and six hundred soldiers killed and 
wounded, and the whole army put to the rout, and flight, and 
the artillery taken. 

* Minot says only one. 

21 



162 smith's journal. 

10. Sundny. Very full meeting; the Purpoodock people over; 
Mr. Clark preaching again. 

14. Our Justices are at work contriving to take Mr. Clark in hand. 

18. Things are in a sad toss about Mr. Clark. 

2S. General Fast, partly on occasion of General Braddock's 
defeat^ and partly for success to Gov. Shirley's expedition to 
Niagara and General Johnson's to Crown Point. 

September 8. The engagement at Lake George was to day a 
victor}'', t in answer, I hope, to the prayers on the late Fast. 

19. I was to visit Mrs. Pearson on occasion of the news we have 
of Col. Titcomb's * being killed in Gen. Johnson's army, who have 
had an engagement with the French and Indians at Lake George. 

October 9, (A complaint having been brought against Mr. Clark, 
for lying, the cause was this day tried at Court, and he was acquitted 
by the Jury. " There were thousands of people present.") 

* It will not, I conceive, be thought amiss to give here the following particulars 
of this defeat. "After an action of three hours. General Braddock, under whom 
three horses had been killed, received a mortal wound; and his troops fled in 
extreme dismay and confusion. The provincials, who were among the last to leave 
the field, formed after the action by the prudent valor of Washington, and covered 
the retreat of the regulars. The defeat was entire. Of eighty-five officers, sixty- 
four were killed and wounded, and about half the privates. The defeated army fled 
precipitately to the camp of Dunbar, where Braddock expired of his wounds. F. 

t The French General, Baron Dieshaw, who had received a wound in his leg, 
was leaning on a stump, entirely alone, while looking for his watch to surrender it, 
one of the soldiers, suspecting him to be in search for a pistol, poured a charge 
through his hips, and he was conducted a prisoner to the English camp. Capt. 
M'Giimes, commander of the provincials, fell in the action. F. 

1. This was Col. Moses Titcomb, of Newbury, who was killed Sept. 8. He 
was a tthe siege of Louisbourg; his sister married Moses Pearson, of this town. 
He was son of Wm. Titcomb and born in 1700. 

This incident and the various skirmishes mentioned in the journal, were the 
preliminary movements of the famous seren years' war, better known in this 
country as the "old French war," which commenced on the continent in 1754, 
but was not formally declared m England until May, 1756, in which England and 
the continent of Europe were involved, and was disastrous to all the parties engaged 
in it, but England. It substantially terminated in America by the capture of 
Quebec in 1759, but formally by the peace of Paris in 1763. It subjected the 
principal powers of the European continent to a vast burden of debt : but England 
gained the Canadas, and some West India Islands, and performed many brilliant 
achievements on land and at sea, althouffh at a terrible loss of blood and treasure. 



smith's journal. 163 

November 10. I prayed at New Casco Vvith Mrs. Clark's grand 
child and widow Douglass, both ill with the throat distemper; eight 
children have died there. (These died too.) 

17. There was in the night at a quarter past four, a most 
amazing shock of an earthquake. It lasted two minutes, that seemed 

-as if it would shake the house to pieces, and then threw down near 
one hundred bricks of our chimney, and did the same to many other 
chimneys in town. ^ 

18. We had a lecture' on occasion of the earthquake, exceeding 
full considering the short notice people had. People are universally 
greatly surprised and distressed. 

19. A pleasant calm day and night, not a breath of wind, 
and such was last night when the earthquake was, and all yesterday. 
We have never known two days and nights together so calm 
and pleasant. 

22. Besides several earthquakes we have had this week, we had 
this evening at half after eight, a very smart one which exceedingly 
surprised us. Continued cloudy until to day it rained, and when we 
had a great shock of the earth, it not only rained but the wind blew. 

December 11. Peter went to preach and live at Marblehead. 
(Windham.) 

18. We had a Fast on occasion of the earthquake. 

19. There were two or three earthquakes to night. 

* It began at Boston a little after four o'clock in a serene and pleasant night, and 
continued nearly four and a half minutes; about one hundred chimnies were in a 
manner levelled with the roofs of the houses, and about fifteen hundred shattered 
and thrown down in part. The ends of about twelve or fifteen brick buildings 
were thrown down from the tops to the eves of the houses. The vane of the 
market house was thrown down, a new vane of one of the churches was bent at 
the spindal. At New Haven, the ground in many places seemed to rise like the 
waves of the sea; the houses shook and cracked as if they were just ready to fall. 
Its course was north-west to south-east ; its extent was from Chesapeak Bay, 
south-west, to Halifax, north-east, about eight hundred miles; but fi-om north-west 
to south east it reached at least one thousand miles, and perhaps many more. It 
probably passed by the West Indies to the eastward of the Islands. About two 
o'clock, P. M. the same day the sea withdrew from the harbor of St. Martin, 
leaving the vessels dry, and fish on the banks, where there used to be three or four 
fathoms of water, and when it came in it arose six feet higher than usual. There 
was no shock fell there, though here it was the most violent that was ever loiown 
in the country, F. 



164 smith's journal. 

27. We have an account that Lisbon is destroyed and three 
hundred miles on the ocean towards the Straights' mouth, St. Ubes 
and Algizero. Other places sunk, and Cadiz and Saville greatly 
damaged, sixty miles back ; but we hear as yet no more. 

30. I catechised, and prayed, and exhorted the children in the 
meeting house — two hundred of them. 

(It will be noticed that some of the events of this year were 
uncommon and important.) * 

1756. 

January 4. Sunday. Mr. Bosworth preached. I was in the 
evening called to Justice Frost, who, going from meeting was seized 
with a fit, but before I got to him he was dead. ^ 

8. Public Fast, on occasion of the earthquakes in Europe and 
America. 

20. Clark's messengers returned, not being able to get Installers. 

29. We hear of Mr. Wise's death. ^ 



1. On a scrap of the original journal of this year in my possession, I find under 
March 7, this entry: "Mr. Web came here to live." This is Jonathan Webb, 
from Boston ; he graduated at H. C. 1754, and came here to take charge of a 
school. He was not very popular, the boys called liim pithy Webb, from his habit 
of putting the pith of the quill into liis mouth when he made the pens. Edward 
Preble, afterwards the Commodore, who was always ready for a joke, once made 
the pith a little too unpalateable to the Doniine, which brought down his vengeance 
on the offender's head. Mr. Webb married Lucy, eldest daughter of Brigadier 
Preble in 1763, but had no issue by her. He Uved in the house now the Casco 
house on Middle street, at the breaking out of the revolution, and kept boarders : 
President John Adams boarded with him when he attended Court here, which he 
was in the habit of doing before the war. 

2. Charles Frost; he lived at Stroudwater, where Dexter Brewer who married 
his grand daughter now lives. His father was the Hon. John Frost, of New 
Castle, near Portsmouth, and his mother, a sister of Sir William Pepperell. She 
married successively after her first husband's death in 1732, Rev. Dr. Colman, of 
Boston, August 12, 1745, and Judge Prescott, of Danvers. His grandfather was 
Major Charles Frost, of considerable notoriety in the early history of the Province, 
who was killed by the Indians in 1697. He was born m Tiverton, England, 1632, 
and came to this country about 1635. See note to 1740, for the family of Charles 
Frost, page 92. 

3. Rev. Jeremiah Wise, of Berwick, graduated at H. C. 1700, settled at Ber- 
wick, November, 1707. and died January 20, 1756; a man of learning, piety, 
prudence and usefulness. 



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February 3. Town meeting to choose Representative ; after a 
violent struggle by Clark's party in favor of Capt. Robinson, Major 
Freeman was chosen. 

March 9. Town meeting. Mr. Longfellow chosen Town Clerk. 

26. We have news from St. George, that a party of Indians the 
day before yesterday, killed two young men and scalped a third. 

Ap)-il 12. This morning the robbin which has visited us several 
springs past, began to serenade us. 

May 3. Mr. Clark set out once more to get Installers. 

10. This morning we are alarmed w^ith young Knights, who 
escaped from the Indians three days ago, and got to North Yarmouth 
this morning, who brings news of one hundred and twenty Indians 
coming upon the frontier who are to spread themselves in small scouts 
from Brunswick to Saco. 

11. Capt. Milk with forty men, Capt. Ilsley with a company and 
Capt. Skillin with another, went out in pursuit of the Indians. Capt. 
Smith with a reinforcement out of the North Yarmouth and New 
Casco companies, went with Knight to the place where he left three 
squaws and where the Indians left their beaver. We hear that Capt. 
Berry is also gone with his scout. 

13. The Indians a few days ago took a man at Brunswick that 
was in company with others who threw away their guns and escaped. 
They killed one Mains' and =^ ^ * *, at Flying Point, and 
carried away a young woman ; but they also left an Indian here, a 
man firing down through the chamber floor and killed him on 
the spot. 

14. This morning, one Brown was killed and Winship was 
wounded and scalped at Marblehead, (Windham). Manchester fired 
upon them, and we hope killed an Indian, as did Capt. Skilliu 
another. The Indians fled affrighted and left five packs, a bow and 
a bunch of arrows, and several other things. 

1. This was Thomas Means, son of Robert Means who married a daughter of 
James Armstrong. Both Means and Armstrong were of tlie Irisli immigration 
wliich landed and spent the winter of 1717 here. Several of the immigrants 
remained and established themselves at Cape Elizabeth, among whom were Arm- 
strong, Jemison, McDonald, Slemons, Means and others, whose descendants 
still remain among us. Thomas Means moved down the bay and gave his name to 
Main's Point, in North Yarmouth. Flying Point where he was killed, is in 
Freeport, which waa formerly a part of North Yarmouth. 



I()<) smith's jouunal. 

Brown nnd Winship were going with a guard of four men and four 
lads to work upon Brown's Place, about a mile from the fort, riglit 
back, and the two Walkers forward on about sixty rods, and the 
Indians fired on them ; whereupon Manchester fired once, but 
Farrow and Sterling with the other two lads run away home, and the 
Indians fled also in great haste. Capt. Skillin with a company being 
gone out in the woods about a mile, were called back and with Capt. 
Brown's scout (that happened also to be there) pursued the Indians and 
fired on one, and then all shouted for victory. Manchester was the hero 
of the action, but Anderson behaved gallantly calling, follow on my 
lads ; or the English, perhaps all of them, would have been killed. 

18. Major Freeman was again chosen our Representative, Capt. 
Waldo his competitor. ' 

20. There is a great bustle again at Purpoodock. John Rogers 
and the Clevelands are come there to install Mr. Clark, who spent to 
day in a mock council. ^ Many of our people went over, and installed 
him in Simonton's orchard the 21st. 



1. Enoch Freeman and Samuel Waldo. Waldo was chosen the five following 
years. 

2. This was the Rev. Ephraini Clark ; he is said to have been previously 
settled in Boston, (Greenleaf's Ecclesiastical Sketches, page 39), but I do not find 
his name in the table of ministers settled in Boston, published in the Geneological 
Register. He had been ordained some where, fijr he was now only installed. He 
was originally fi-om Stonington, Conn., where he was under Chur. h censure ; and 
seems to have had a most determined and militant spirit; for he persisted against 
the advice of a numerous Council, and in spite of a rancorous opposition in 
proceeding to installation under the trees of an orchard, in the face of the open 
sky, because the church was refused him. 

The subject was brought before a Convention of ministers m Boston, held May 
26, 17.56, which adopted the following vote : " Then were read a letter with some 
papers from a number of aggrieved brethren in the Second Church m Falmouth, 
relating to the installment of one ftlr. Clark there, and requesting the advice and 
assistance of the Convention ; wherefore it was Voted, nemine contradicente, that 
it is the opinion of this Convention that all such proceedings as these are represented 
to he, are very uregular, against which they think themselves ( bliged to bear their 
testimony, as having a manifest tendency to destroy these Churches, if not 
seasonably discountenanced. Attest: I. MAYHEW, Scribk." 

I have also before me a paper drawn up by Mr. Smith, for one of the members of 
the church who was called to account for absenting himself from the ordinances, 
&c., giving nineteen reasons, which, he says, he might among others, oiler, if 
propijrly culled u[)0U; why he could not in conscience submit himself to the pastoral 



smith's jotjknal. 167 

23. Sundnv. Hod a rontribution in favor of Jos. Knio-hts. 



care and instructions of a person so unfit as Mr. Clark, to be a minister of tlio 
Gospel ; a few of which I will cite. 

1st. " Mr. Clarke is an unlearned man, and so in the nature of the thing unfit to 
he a minister of the Ciospel." 

2nd. " He is an imprudent, froward, vain, pretending man." 

3rd. " Settled witiiout the advice and concurrence of the neighboring ministers." 

4th. '• No Church meeting regularly called to make choice of him." 

5th. " He was thus judged unfit by one of the greatest Ecclesiastical Councils 
that ever was heard of in this part of the world, after three whole days spent in a 
deliberate inquiry," &c. 

7th. "His pretended installment was a stupid rash thing. For if two or three 
ministers and Churches brought from a distance could counteract the result of so 
extraordinary council," &c. 

8th. "It was censured and testified against by the whole body of ministers 
through the country." 

9th. " He never produced any sufficient testimonials even of church membership, 
and none from the separate flock he had some years been ministering to." 

lOtli. " His entrance at Purpoodock was extraordinary, invited privately by 
Capt. Robinson and sent down to us, refusing to go to Georgetown where he was 
invited, &c., gross dissimulation," &c. 

15th. " Perpetually riding about and pleasuring." 

16th. " His want of a due regard to truth," &c. 

Notwithstanding this strenuous opposition from the high conservative party, the 
democratic principle, the principle of Congregationalism prevailed ; and the 
majority of the Parish succeeded in settling and having a preacher of their own 
choice. 

He was sustained by friends as ardent as his opponents were bitter; and a contro- 
versy was kept up many years; the ministers of the neighboring town held a fast on 
account of these contentions; but their prayers and solemnities did not abate them. 
Several of the leaders of the opposition, among whom was Col. Gushing, were set 
off to the First Parish, and twenty-four members of the Parish who remained, were 
committed to jail for refusing to pay their rates. But notwithstanding all this sound 
and fury, the attempt to poison which Mr. Smith afterwards speaks of, and the 
unappeasable clamor, which shook the whole town and the churches of many 
towns, Mr. Clark died quietly in his bed in 1797, after a ministry of more than 
forty years, without any stain upon his character, at Cape Elizabeth, that I have 
heard of, and leaving the reputation of piety and sincerity. The great difficulty in 
the outset seems to have been, in addition to the old leaven of Presbyterianism, 
that Mr. Clark was a man of moderate talents and without the advantages of a 
liberal education. He left no issue. Rogers was settled in Kittery, now Elliot. 
One of the Clevelands, Ebenezer, was from Gloucester; the other, Jolui, was from 
Ipswich. 



168 <;mith's journal. 

June 4 Peter (who has discontinued preaching at Marblehead 
tliroe Sabbaths past by reason of the Indians) went there to day. 

17. Col. Gushing recovered his cause of rates. A terrible uproar 
about Mr. Clark's being poisoned by Mr. Lovet. 

July 14. This day the ministers kept a private Fast, on occasion 
of the contentions in our town and the reproaches cast on the 
ministers. 

22. Public Fast on occasion of the expedition to Crown Point. 

We are visited with the sore judgment of the worms that we were 
thirteen years ago, which have destroyed whole fields of English and 
Indian corn in divers places. 

27. Mr. Clark is on the road with his wife three days, and to day 
preached to the Quakers, and a huge rabble gathered together 
through curiosity which occasions a great toss among the people. 

29. We have news many ways that war with France was 
proclaimed the 16th of May, 

August 20. A brig is here from Ireland, sent by Brigadier 
Waldo with passengers. 

24. All the daily talk is about the French expedition to Minorca, 
and our fleet that are sent there in the defence of it, and our army 
gone against Crown Point. We are in hourly expectation of engage- 
ments that will be decisive of the fate of each. 

September 6. We have news that Port Mahon was surrendered 
to the French the 29th June. Admiral Byng not having succored it, 
but withdrew from an engagement with the French fleet to Gibraltar 
(it is thought through corruption). We have also the shocking nev/s 
that Oswego Forts with fifteen hundred men have surrendered to the 
French. 

9. Son Thomas came home, being done with Mr. Scollay. 

10. Rode to North Yarmouth and dined with Mr. Wiswell. 
19. Mr. Wiswell gave in his answer to New Casco. 

26. Sunday. A thin meeting, some of our men being gone to 
Georges upon the news brought us yesterday, that Georges Fort was 
attacked (which was not true, but one of our schooners was burnt and 
two taken, and three men killed and three missing.) 

28. Capt. Ross had a large ship launched. 

29. It is a sickly time generally through the country ; at Saco 
the throat distemper has killed fourteen children ; at Dunston, they 



SMITH'S JOURNAL. 169 

have the fever and ague ; and at Black Point, Nortli Yarmouth and 
Fahnouth, the slow fever and bloody flux. 

October 2. Governor Shirley sailed for England. 

7. I rode to Black Point and attended a Fast on occasion of the 
sickness. 

12, I was over to Purpoodock visiting and praying with Dr. 
Wise ; staid all night. 13. Dr. Wise died. 

14. We have news that thirteen thousand French regulars 
besides Canadians and Indians are got near our army at lake George, 
and that the army is very sickly. '^ 

Capt. Rouse put in here having lost his lieutenant and nine men 
with his pinace, by Indians. 

30. The town is full of company. In the harbor are Rouse, 
Tenny, Granger, the Deal ships and a scow from Boston. 

November 3. I went to New Casco to the ordination of Mr. 
Wiswell. ' (Other ministers, Loring, Thompson, Hovey, Morril.) 

12. The Centurion man-of-war arrived here from Halifax to guard 
the ships. 

December 31. Having obtained help from God, I and mine 
continue and are brought to the end of another year. Blessed be his 
name. 

(The journal of this year records events v/hich might be deemed 
disastrous ; but he who ruleth over all. is wise and good and righteous 
in all he does. Let then all the people praise him (however they be 
affected by his government) and join in the ascription with which the 
journal closes, and that of David, king of Israel. " Blessed be his 
name.") 

The following items in the original journal under this year were 
not transferred by Mr. Freeman to his pages, viz : 

* It was agreed in Council of Colonial Government at New York, to raise ten 
thousand men for an expedition against Crown Point ; six thousand for an expedi- 
tion against Niagara and three thousand against Fort du Quesne, and that two 
thousand should advance up the river Kennebec and destroy the settlement on the 
Chaudiere ; but Major General Winslow finding there were on}y seven thousand 
raised for the former, declared them inadequate to the enterprise. The attempt 
proposed against Fort du Q,uesne was not prosecuted, and the expedition up 
Kennebec terminated in a mere scouting party which explored the country. F. 

1. Rev. John Wiswell, of whom a notice has been before given, in note under 
1753, page 150. 

22 



170 smith's journal, 

June 24. Molly Jordan married. 

October 27. Mr. Po^v•ell before the Court for bastardy, 

28. Capt. Merrill died. 

November 10. Judge Saltonstall and Mr. Rutherford died, 

December 1. Secretary Willard died. 

3. Thomas began to trade here. ' 

21. Mrs. Hill died; Col. Pollard died." 

1757. 

February 6. The snow was so deep in drifts that there was no 
possibility of getting to the Meeting house. We met and had one 
meeting at the Court house. " 

March 13. One Clark, of Sebago town, killed Woorster and 
wounded Gray and Sands. 

April 9. Yesterday six Purpoodock men were put to goal for 
their rates to Mr. Clark, 

20, Jos. Cox, Bayley and others sailed upon a cniise for six weeks 
after the Penobscot Indians. 

May 4. Eighteen more Purpoodock men were put to jail for 
Clark's rates. 

14. Yesterday young Webb, of Marblehead, was fired upon by 
two Indians seventy miles back in the woods. 

18. Seventeen Indians waylaid and had a short engagement at 
Topsham, with Lithgow and eight men, two of our men were 
wounded and two Indians carried off dead. 

30. We hear by a man that made his escape, that two of his 
companions were killed by the Indians seventy miles up Ameriscoggin. 

1. His son Thomas ; he served his apprenticeship with Thomas Scollay, of 
Boston. His store was on the corner of Middle and Essex streets. He continued 
to trade there until the destruction of the town, part of the time in connection witi« 
hi? brother Jolm, who was a physician and apothecary, and part of the time with 
John Fox. Thomas was a man of fine personal appearance, easy and gentlemanly 
maimers, and agreeable temper. At the commencement of the war, his nephew, 
Thomas Sanders, of Gloucester, and Benjamin Scollay, of Boston, were Clerks 
in his store. Scollay joined Capt. Manly's armed ship, in 1776, and was killed on 
his first cruise. Sanders became a wealthy merchant in Salem, and died in 1844. 

2. This was the old Meeting house which stood on the corner of King, now 
India, and Middle streets. It was moved to Hampshire street in 1774, to give place 
to a new Court house, and was destroyed in the fire of next year. 



smith's journal. 171 

30. I prayed with a young woman wlio was in prison for the 
murder of her infant. 

June 2. Cox and Bayley returned from their cruise after the 
Indians, bringing with them the scalps of two men whom they killed, 
two canoes and a quantity of oil, fish and feathers. 

7. We hear that Capt. Whitney was killed by a number of our men 
who fired upon a camp where he was, supposing Indians were in it. 

17. Marshal Daun raised the seige of Prague and obtained a 
victory over the king of Prussia, 

20. Capt. Waldo came home from Boston and brings the most 
melancholy tidings of the drought at the westward and that the small 
pox is in our forts and that it is feared a great French fleet is coming 
to America, upon which accounts all hearts ache at Boston and people 
appear quite discouraged and disconsolate. 

21. We had a Fast upon the occasion of the distressing drought, 

22. The Association meeting was turned into a fast, 

20. Public Fast on occasion of the drought and apprehension of a 
French fleet to attack us, and many disappointments and threatening 
impending judgments, 

July 2. Lord Loudon we hear has sailed from New York with 
transports for Halifax. 

3, No person sick in the Parish, a remarkable mercy. 

7, The melancholy case of New Casco opened to day about their 
turning to the Church of England, * 

8, To day at half past two we felt a considerable earthquake. 
I hear Merriconeag Parish is broken to pieces, 

15. Mr, Cox's sloop came in from Halifax and brings news of 
the arrival of a French fleet consisting of seventeen ships of the line 
and fifteen other men-of-war, and sixty-four transports, and that Lord 
Loudon had eighty-seven transports, 

IS, We have had the greatest abundance of cherries that ever we 
had (perhaps twenty or thirty bushels.) 

1, This did not prove true; the Church at New Casco adhered to their former 
faith, although an effort was made by a portion of the members of the First Parish, 
who were dissatisfied with Mr. Smith, to bring tlie pastor, Mr. Wiswell and his 
people over to Episcopacy. They attended Church there and paid Court to Mr. 
Wiswell, and finally, succeeded in bringing him, but not his Parish, over to 
their views. 



172 smith's jouknal, 

It is a time of remarkable health in the Parish, and through the 
country, and has been so hitherto, throughout the year. I myself 
grow very fat. 

25. An uneasiness in the Church on account of the Purpoodock 
people partaking with us. 

26. A clamoring by some of the town against me for visiting Mrs. 
Cox, who has broke out with the small pox, when I did it at the desire 
of the Justices and Selectmen. 

Several families have moved away for fear of the small pox. 

30. Our cherries are not yet gone, and people are satisfied and 
tired coming for them. More than a hundred women and some men 
have been after them, and the currants cannot be diminished. 

August 14. We have news that sixteen thousand French and 
Indians have attacked our fort on the lake. * 

15. We have news that our Fort William and Henry, at the 
Lake, was taken on Tuesday last, and that Fort Edward was besieged 
by sixteen thousand of the enemy. The country is all in an uproar, 
marching to their relief. Gen. Johnson is there and Gen. Webb, 
with five thousand men. '^ 

19. Sailed for Boston. September 2. Returned from Boston. 

27. Amidst all the distress of the town, upon occasion of our loss 
and disappointment, we have to day further melancholy news by a 
ship from London, of the Duke's being beat. ' 

October 19. We hear that our fleet at Louisburgh had all like to 
have been lost on the 24th of September. That the Tisbury, with 
four hundred and fifty men, foundered, and that the Ferret was 
missing, and most of the others lost their masts. 

November 3. We have news from Halifax that the people there 
talk of leaving the place ; that our Province Snow is taken ; that six 

* Fort Wm. Henry was surrendered by capitulation, and the garrison was to be 
allowed the honors of war, and to be protected against the Indians until within the 
reach of Fort Edward ; but no sooner had the soldiers left the place, than the 
Indians in the French army, disregarding the stipulation, fell on tliem, and com- 
mitted the most cruel outrages. F. 

1. Fort Wm. Henry at the head of Lake George. 

2. The Dulve of Cumberland, brother of George, II, Commander in Chief of 
the allies in the German campaign. The battle of HastenbecU, between the French 
and allies, July 25, wliich led to the dit^graceful Convention of Clostcr VII, is here 
reforicd to. 



smith'j- jouunal. 173 

large men-of-war are gone home in Jury masts, and that Hanover is 
taken, 

30. The price of beef at Boston is twelve pence per pound ; corn 
per bushel twenty shillings ; here twenty-two and six pence. 

I am provided with every thing needful for the coming winter. 

December 14. A Council at Gorham. ' 

16. The Council finished, and brought the aggrieved brethren to 
agree. 

26. Capt. Pearson gave me a barrel of cider. 

(I notice this as a further memento of the numerous presents made 
to Mr. Smith.) 

(This appears to have been a healthy year, generally, and with 
Mr. Smith in particular. With but one exception, he made no com- 
plaint of discontent with his performances on the Sabbath, nor 
expressed any doubt of the people's satisfaction with them.) 

Additional items from leaves of the journal not transferred by Mr. 
Freeman. 

January 22. Thomas dangerously sick. 

February 18. Mr. Whipple, of Hampton, died. 

April 1. Gov. Phips died. " 

May 17. Mr. Colton, of Newtown, died. 

June 11. Mr. Barnard, of Andover, died. 

13. My salary fixed at £800, on conditions as below, March 15, 
(1758.) 

18. I received £165 and 33 of Cox, my part of scalp money. 

July 25. Great tumult about John Cox's wife having the small 
pox. 

1. This Council was called to restore peace in the Society at Gorham. A large 
portion of Mr. Lombard's Parish had become dissatisfied with him and desired his 
dismissal. He did not accede to their request, and there being no suthcient reason 
for removing him from office, it was finally arranged the following January, by a 
Council consistmg of six Churches, that a new religious Society should be formed, 
and that the seceding members should be exonerated from any obligation to 
contribute to the support of Mr. Lombard. The causes of disagreement are given 
in a note under the year 1750, page 145. 

2. Spencer Phips, Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. He was appointed in \loZ. 
Hutchinson says he died April 4. He was son of Dr. David Bonnet, of Rowley, 
by the third daughter of Capt. Roger Spencer, some lime of Saco; he was adopted 
hy his uncle, Sir Win. Pliip?, and on thai occasion changed his name. 



174 smith's journal. 

November. Brother Jolm returned from London with a vast deal 
of goods, 

Peter keeps school and preaches at Weymouth." 

1758. 

January 20. I rode to Gorham and joined the council ; six 
churches. 

21. The Council sat yesterday and to day, in hearing a tedious 
exhibition of charges brought against Mr. Lombard by the dis- 
affected. 

24. We spent yesterday and to day in hearing a tedious exhibi- 
tion of charges brought by Mr. Lombard against the disaffected, and 
in debating and voting on the same. 

25. All this morning was spent in debating what the result of the 
Council should be ; whether to continue Mr, Lombard upon trial for 
twelve months, or dismiss him, and when I was putting it to vote, a 
motion came into the Council that the parties had agreed. 

26. And so the matter was finished by nine o'clock this evening, 
Febj-uary 13. We have the confirmation and particulars of the 

news, that the King of Prussia with eighteen or twenty thousand 
men, obtained a complete victory over the Imperial and French army 
of sixty thousand men, * An astonishing event ! Glory to God, 

March 15. Parish meeting. They voted £800 for my salary, 
and I gave them a receipt for all arrears. 

16, Two Londoners with £100,000 sterling, were cast away on 
Lynn beach by the storm. 

23, We have the happy news of a second complete victory over 
Prince Charles and Marshal Douse, (imperial Generals) by Prince 
Bevere, The Prince Bevere w^as beat, but afterwards the King of 
Prussia joined him, and the above victory was obtained, with thirty- 
eight thousand against seventy thousand, ^ 

J, The English were in alliance with Frederick, of Prussia, whose victory gave 
so much satisfaction to Mr. Smith, The baUlc of Rosback, Nov. 5, 1757, is 
referred to. 

2. The names written here, Marshal Douse and Prince Bevere, were probably 
copied wrongly from the journal ; they should read Marshal Daun, Commander of 
the Austrian troops, and Bevern, a Commander under Frederick the Great. These 
battles occurred in the attempt to capture Prague, and were the greatest engage- 
ments of the war. 



smith's .iotirnal. 175 

21. We have a confirmation of the last news. We hear of a 
prodigious expedition entered upon against Canada.* 

26. Horses and sleighs go every where over the snow, which is as 
high as the fences. 

April 5. Josluia Moody is now recruiting men for the Canada 
expedition. There are to be raised five hundred men in this county. 

28. Mr. Francis Waldo, who came to town on Monday, dined 
here. He is appointed Collector for this port. 

May 3. One Ingersol and one Willard. are come to town with 
recruiting orders for ninety more men out of this part of the country, 
which, makes the people quite mad, that when we had cheerfully 
enlisted our quota, (five hundred) they should now get a pressing. 

21. Our soldiers sailed for Kittery in three transport sloops, 

24. One Pomeroy, upon Kennebec river, was killed by tlie 
Indians, and a young man taken captive. 

Jime 1. The two last Thursdays' newspapers are full of the 
success of the Duke of Brunswick. In Hanover, the French were 
driven out of every place with great loss. Their army sickly, and 
multitudes dead and killed, and by a decisive battle they were 
entirely routed ; all their magazines taken and Hanover entirely 
evacuated. 

3. Admiral Boscawen has arrived at Louisburgh with his fleet 
from Halifax. It consisted of twenty-four ships of the line, eleven 
frigates and four bomb ships. 

4. He landed his troops at Gaberouse Bay. ' 

11. We hear that Mr. Preble," of Arowsic, and his wife, were 

*The British Government having determined to send a large force to America, 
to operate by sea and land against the French, Mr. Pitt, in a circular letter to the 
Colonial Governors, called upon them to raise as large bodies of men as the number 
of inhabitants would allow. The northern Colonies were prompt and liberal in 
furnishing supplies. The Legislature of Massachusetts voted to furnish seven 
thousand men, Connecticut five thousand and New Hampshii-e three thousand. 
These troops were ready to take the field very early in May, previously to whicli 
term. Admiral Boscawen had arrived at Halifax with a formidable fleet, and 
twelve thousand troops under the command of Gen. Amherst. F. 

1. On the east coast of Cape Breton; the name is Gabarus. 

2. This was Jonathan Preble, who was born in York, 1695, and was son of 
Abraham, who was son of the first Abraham who came to this country, filled many 
responsible offices in the Province, and died in 1663. Abraham was ancestor of all 
"of the name in the State. 



ITG smith's journal. 

lately killod by the Indians, and their six children and a young 
woman carried away captives. 

16. Parish meeting about the bell Capt. Ross sent for, which is 
come. ' After much concerted opposition, made by the out families 
Avho threatened never to come to meeting, and talked of being set off 
a separate Parish, the Parish voted £100 L. M. to pay for it. 

26. Brigadier Waldo came to town by land, as did his sons by 
water. 

29. We attended a Fast upon the expedition ; Mr. Morrill and I 
preached. Messrs. Elvin, Thompson, Hovey and Lombard prayed. 

July 2. Sunday. Our bell (which weighs more than eight 
hundred) which was hung yesterday, rang at the usual hours. 

6. We had a Fast with respect to the great expedition ; Mr. 
Elvin preached. 12. Attended a Fast ; I preached. 

19. I attended a Fast; Messrs. Thompson and Elvin preached. 

21. News that Louisburgh is taken, the joy of which is abated 
by news that our army at Ticonderoga is routed, and retreated with 
the loss of two thousand men. 

27. The news of the taking of Louisburgh is contradicted. 
August 17. Capt. Jordan came here and brought us news of the 

reduction of Louisburgh on the 26th July, which is confirmed by a 
letter from Thomas, in Boston, to Mr. Codman. The people spent 
P. M. and most of the night rejoicing. 

24. We have further confirmation of the news of the reduction of 
Louisburgh^ and hear of great rejoicings at Boston and Portsmouth. 

1. This? was the first bell which had been introduced among us to summon the 
people to Church, and was looked upon probably as an innovation, or perhaps a 
conformity to Popish usages, which betokened degeneracy of manners or declension 
in religion. The offensive novelties of one age become the useful and necessary 
sources of enjoyment to the next. Thus the degeneracies of the base viol, the 
clarionet and the organ, have successively produced their discordant notes m reli- 
gious societies and rent many in twaui, to be at last recognized and legitimatized as 
aidi3, if not to devotion, at least to the satisfaction of social worship. 

*It was taken with the loss of about four hundred men killed or wounded. 
The garrison lost upwards of fifteen hundred, and the town was left almost in a 
heap of ruins. Tile conquerors found twenty-two pieces of cannon and eighteen 
mortars, with a large quantity of stores and ammunition. The inhabitants of Cape 
Breton were sent to France in English ships; but the garrison amounting to 5637 
ofEcers and men, were carried prisoners to England. F. 



smith's journal. 177 

30. We have been all in alarm by the advices of great firing at 
Georges. One hundred and fifty men, mostly volunteers, are gone 
with Mr. Cox. 

31. Upon their return from Pemaquid, they brought news that 
the French and Indians had attacked Georges, took and returned 
a woman ; killed sixty cattle, and moved ofT. 

Septeviber 12. The epidemic cough we had all the last winter, 
now again prevails in every house. The children especially are 
grievously exercised with it, and seem as if they would die. 

14. Day of prayer and thanksgiving on occasion of the reduction 
of Louisburg and defeat of our army at Ticonderoga. 

18, Capt. Tenny in a mast ship came here to load. 

21. We hear that Prince Ferdinand, in command of his 
Majesty's army, obtained a complete victory over Count Clermont, 
and the French army on the 23rd June, in which the latter lost 
8000 men, and the former only 1000. 

22. Admiral Anson, with a great fleet, and the Duke of Marl- 
borough, with 16,000 troops, have been to St. Malo, and burnt three 
hundred ships. 

October 16. I prayed with Enoch Ilsley's child, who is ill with 
the cough and fever, as hundreds of children are in the Parish. 

November 3. A small man-of-war run aground coming in here as 
an escort to the mast ship. 

6. The man-of-war and mast ship sailed. 

December. (Nothing to be noticed.) 

(I have not observed in the journal of this year that Mr. Smith 
expressed any disheartening circumstances or doubt of approbation 
and acceptance.) 

Additional items. 

''April 28. Frank Waldo Collector. 

June 7. Mr. Hutchinson, Lieut. Governor ; Mr. Oliver, Secretary. 

9. Mrs. Fox died ' 

1. The widow of Jabez Fox, whose maiden name was Ann Hodge, of 
Newbury; her first husband was Phineas Jones, by whom she had three daughters, 
Lucy, Hannah and Ann. On the 10th of July, 1758, Lucy married Thomas 
Smith, son of our JournaHst, and Ann, Richard Codman, and the same year 
Hannah married Col. John Waite. Lucy had two husbands successively, after the 
death of Mr. Smith, viz., Richard Derby, of Salem, 1778, and Judge Greenleaf, 
of Newburyport, She had no children by her first hnsband, 

23 



178 smith's journal. 

July 10. Married Thomas and Mr. Codman to Lucy and Ann Jones, 
September 22. Capt. Hon. Samuel Moody died. ' 
December 26. Justice Strout died. 

1759. 

January 11. I preached a lecture entirely extempore, determining 
to do it but the moment before I began. -o 

27, The measles is spreading through the towns in this part ot 
the country. 

February 13. Mr. Thompson died this morning.^ 

21. I rode with my wife to Mr. Thompson's funeral. There was 
a great concourse of people, as many from my parish as there were 
horses and sleighs. 

March 14. Parish meeting. Voted to enlarge the Meeting 
house and build a steeple. 

(Many were ill, and several died with the measles this month, and 
Mr Smith was much employed in visiting and praying with the sick. 

How much he was engaged in this kind of ministerial duty, and 
how many scenes of sickness and death he has been witness to ! 
And it may be observed, that he was not only " much" in prayer, 

1. Son of Major Samuel Moody, he left the practice of physic here and -went 
into the army. He commanded Fort George, at Brunswick, at the time of his 
death, and was a Justice of the Peace. He was born in 1699, graduated at H. C. 
1718. His children were Nathaniel Green, born in Falmouth, February 3, 1726; 
William, born May 16, 1728; Samuel, born August 1, 1730; Joshua, born July 
5, 1733; Mary, born June 17, 1735; all in Falmouth. 

2. Rev. Wm. Tompson, of Scarborough; he was the son of Rev. Edward 
Tompson, of Marshfield, who was the son of Samuel, who came from England in 
1637, with his father Rev. Wm. Tompson, who settled in Braintree. William, of 
Scarborough, was bom in Marshfield m 1697, graduated at H. C. in 1718, married 
Anna Hubbard, and settled in Scarboro' m 1728. He left three children, all born 
in Scarboro', viz.: William, born May 25, 1730, died unmarried m 1807; Anna, 
born November 9, 1738, married Joseph Gerrish, of KiUery, 1764, and died Aug. 
11, 1772; and John, born October 3, 1740, graduated at H. C. 1765, married 
Sarah Small, of Somersworth, Nov. 22, 1768, and for his second wife widow 
Sarah Merrill. He was settled in Standish, the first minister there, Oct. 27, 1768, 
and died Dec. 21, 1828^ John had eight children by liis first wife and two by hia 
second. Wm. Tompson, Esq. of Scarboro', now living, ia the oldest son of John, 
and was born Oct. 19, 1769. Rev. Wm. Tompson, whose death we are noticing, 
was the most intimate acquaintance of the Rev. Mr, Smith, and was universally 
esteemed for his high qualities. 



smith's journal. 179 

but eminent in his copious, fluent and fervent manner of performing 
that exercise.) 

AprU 4. Mr. Townsend was ordained in Gorham. Capt. Phin- 
ney prayed before the Charge, and Capt. Morton gave it, and 
Townsend did all the rest. ^ 

18. A remarkable Comet in the north-east about three in the 
morning. 

May 4. Gov. Pownal came here in Capt. Saunders. 

8. He sailed to day with 400 soldiers for Penobscot to build a 
Fort there. • 

31. We hear that Brigadier Waldo died suddenly at Penobscot on 
Wednesday last. " 

June 28. General Fast on occasion of the expeditions. 

July 18. I have baptized thirty-three infants in about six weeks. 

24. Our people threw off the easterly end of the Meeting house. 

August. Prince Ferdinand at the head of the Allied army of 

1. Mr. Townsend was settled over the disaffected portion of Mr. Lombard's 
Society; and it is the first instance in our State, if not in New England, of lay 
ordination. The regular clergy would not unite in inducting him into the ministry, 
probably because he was not duly licensed to preach, and had not passed through a 
course of theological instruction. The independence of the new Society will not 
receive, in this more liberal day, the reproach which was freely cast upon them in 
then- own. It sounds rather queerly, even to our ears, and perhaps Mr. Smith 
meant it as a sneer, to hear of a clergyman being introduced to the sacred oftce 
by Captains of the train band. It is not hinted whether they were dressed in their 
regimentals when they laid their consecrating hands on the Pastor elect ! He died 
Sept. 22, 1762. 

2. The Fort was built in Prospect, near the mouth of Penobscot river, on Fort 
Point, and was called Fort Pownal. It was one of the strongest and best appomted 
Forts in the Province and cost about c£5000. It was completed in July and 
garrisoned by one hundi-ed men under command of Brig. Gen. Preble. Gen. 
Waldo accompanied the Governor, and took great interest in the erection 
of the fortification, as promotive of the interest of the proprietors of the Waldo 
patent, whose boundary extended to near this spot. While viewing the location 
with the Governor, May 23, he exclaimed m reference to his patent, "lierc 
is my bound," and instantly fell in an apoplectic fit and expired on the spot. The 
Governor, to commemorate the melancholy event, caused a leaden plate with an 
inscription upon it to be buried in the place. Gen. Waldo was sixty-three years 
old, and left four children, viz., Samuel and Francis who were our townsmen, and 
two daughters, Lucy, married to Isaac Wuislow, of Roxbury, and Hannah, 
married to Thomas Flukcr, of Boston, and was mother of Gen. Knox's wife. 



180 smith's journal. 

48,000 in Hanover had obtained a complete victory over Marshal 
Contade's army of 140,000. ' 

8. We have the joyful news of Niagara^ and Ticonderoga's t 
being taken, and that the army have landed near Quebec. 

9. Yesterday Mr. Hemmenway was ordained at Wells. - 

16. There were public rejoicings upon the confirmation of 
Niagara and Ticonderoga being taken, and Crown Point being- 
deserted and burnt. 

29. Had a lecture ; baptized six children. 

(It may be here mentioned that during the ministry of Mr. Smith, 
the number of baptisms in his Society, as it appears by the Church 
record, was 2362, viz., of infants, 2331, adults, 31. ° 

September 13. This was the memorable day when Gen. Wolfe's 
army obtained the victory over the French army at Quebec, which 
brought about the surrender of the city. ^ 

1. Battle of Minden, fought in August. 

2. Rev. Moses Hemmenway ; he was born in Franiingham, Mass., and 
graduated at H. C. 1755, in the class with Judge David Sewall, President Joiin 
Adams, Gov. Browne, of R. I., and Gov. Wentworth, of N. H. He was a man 
of distinguished ability, and rankjjd high with the clergy of his day, as a writer 
and preacher. He died in 1811. He was a member of the Convention which 
adopted the Constitution of the United States in 1788. Toward the close of the 
session, when great anxiety prevailed as to the result of their labors, and a large 
Committee on Amendments was raised on Saturday, it was proposed in considera- 
tion of the great importance of the subject, and the agitation of the public mind, 
that the Committee should sit on Sunday, in order to report on Monday; Dr. Hem- 
menway arose and said: "It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath; I have no 
scruples." "'Time presses," said Mr. Sedgewick, " we nmst sit on Sunday." 
It was carried. 

3. By the same records it appears that the admissions to the Church during tiiu 
earns period, that is from 1727 to 1795, were 459. It was usual at that time to 
baptise only the children of Church members and such others as owned the Cove- 
nant. If parents who did not belong to the Church wished their children baptized, 
they were required to make an open confession of faith. 

* The garrison at Niagara, consisting of 600 men, were to March out with the 
konors of war, and to be carried to New York, and the women and children to 
Montreal. F. 

t The enemy, after blowing up their magazines, and doing what damage the 
time would allow, evacuated the Fort and returned to Crown Point. F. 

§ In the battle at the plains of Abraham, about 1000 of the enemy were mntlr 
prisonori", and nearly an ctpal number fell in the field and in llie pursui!. 



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17. Quebec surrendered. 

18. Our army entered into and took possession of Quebec. 

26. The Captains of the mast ships made a great barbaque on 
Hog Island, for a general frolic. 

27. There are one hundred and thirty-six houses upon this Neck, 
besides Tucker's shop, Preble's and Bangs' warehouses and Brad- 
bury's workshop which have families in them, and the fort. ' 

The loss of the English, both of killed and wounded, was less than 600 men, 
Q,uebec, at the time of its capitulation, contained about 10,000 souls. After it was 
reduced, it was garrisoned by about 5000 men, under the command of Gen. 
Murray. F. 

An attempt was made the next year to recover it by the French, under the 
command of M. de Levi, but Gen. Murray with 3000 men, marched out on the 
28th of April, to the Plains of Abraham, and attacked them near Sillery with great 
impetuosity, and after a fierce encounter, retired into the city. In this action he 
lost over 600 men, and the French a greater number. F. 

1. I find on Mr. Smith's original memorandum from which this extract is 
taken, and which is written on part of the back of a letter, the following : " One 
hundred and thirty-six houses and twenty-two double families, in all one hundred 
and sixty-eight families." This is an important fact, as it gives the means of fixing 
the population at that time on the Neck, at about 900, probably something over. 
On the same scrap of paper is a specimen of Mr. Smith's poetry, which as it is the 
only indication we any where have of his dalliance with the muses, we cannot 
withhold it from the public eye. It relates to the appointment of Edward Sawyer, 
Sexton of the Parish, as successor to Father Gooding, as mentioned luider Dec. 31, 
of tills year. 

"O'er Arthur's head they have me dubb'd 
In Falmouth town chief Saxton ; 
And I around the Church must go. 
To gather contribution. 

To dig graves for dead folks also. 
Is deemed to be my oflice; 
And ring the bell to Church to call. 
And other week days' service. 

To keep and sweep the meeting house, 
Both I and my meet helper; 
And when wind blows, to shut tlie doors. 
And get baptismal water. 

Good neighbors all, rejoice with me 
In this my high promotion; 
And as I do make shoes also. 
Pray let luc have your custom." 

" Sic C'ecinnil, E. >Sawyer." 



182 • smith's journal. 

October 5. We have a deluge of company this week, and indeed 
through the whole summer. 

(The social disposition of Mr, Smith always afforded him the 
company of the most respectable strangers, and frequent visits of his 
acquaintances and friends.) 

14. We have news that Quebec is taken, and that General Wolfe 
and Montcalm are killed. (See Sept. 13.) 

16. The cannon were fired at the Fort yesterday and to day. 
Mr. Mayhew's house was illuminated, and small arms fired in the 
evening, upon further and more authentic news of the victory at 
Quebec. ^ 

17. The three mast ships fired and were illuminated upon the 
same occasion. 

15. The country is all in ecstary upon the surprising news of the 
conquest of Quebec. General Wolfe, with an army of 5000 men, 
on the 13th of last month, having got above the city and landed on 
the north side, attacked the French behind the city, who after a 
terrible engagement of fifteen minutes, fled into the city which 
surrendered the 17th. 

25. Public Thanksgiving for the reduction of Canada and 
Quebec particularly. 

November 1. I dined with Capt. Granger, and spent P. M. on 
board Darling, with Capt. Hagget. (Captains of the three mast 
ships,) 

13. I was to see John Waite, who is returned from the river St. 
Lawrence, and who came away with the last of the fleet. 

21. This day is memorable for the defeat of Gen. Finck, with a 
Prussian army of above 12,000 men, who all surrendered to the 
Austrian army ; and also for the defeat of the Brest fleet, by Sir 

"Edward Hawke. 

December 31. We have news from Europe that the French are 
still upon the design of invading England and Ireland. 

(Some time this year Mr. Edward Sawyer was appointed sexton 
of the Parish, as successor to old Father (Arthur) Gooding.) 

1. The Fort was at the foot of King street, near where the Railway Station is, 
Mayhew or Mayo's house was on the west side of King street and the corner of 
Newbury street. 



smith's journai,. 183 

Additional extracts omitted by Mr. Freeman. 

January 10. Was at Pearsontown the first time (only the Fort 
there.) 

March 1. The measles in Falmouth and all this part of the country. 
April 13. Capt. Milk broke his thigh a second time. 
May 28. Doct. John came here with medicines. (Came home 1 1th.) 
(This was his son John who studied physic in Portsmouth.) 
July 6. Sir Wm. Pepperell died. Penobscot Fort built. 

22. Our Meeting house w^as enlarged. * Hunt VValley died 16th. 
August 9. Uncle Walley died 28th. 

September 2. Mr. Minot died ; Mr. Sweetsir also. 

1760. 

January 20. News is come from the General Court that the 
disaffected brethren at Purpoodock are set off. ^ 

February 6. Brigadier Preble is returned from Boston and brings 
news of the county's being divided. ^ 

29. We have certain news that Admiral Hawke has taken, 
destroyed and scattered the whole Brest fleet, and (bad news) that 
the Prussian army under General Finck, has all surrendered. 

March 1. We have news that Mr. Bernard, (Governor of the 
Jerseys) is appointed our Governor, and Mr. Pownal, Governor of 
South Carolina. 

20. I had a letter from Brigadier Preble, giving an account of the 
Penobscot Indians coming for peace. Governor Lawrence has made 
peace with the St. John's and Passamaquoddy Indians, and the 
neutral French and Cape Sable Indians are also come in. 

23. Sunday. I was this morning called to Capt. Ross', Mr. Flett 
and Mr. M'Clean being killed by the fall of the kitchen garret floor, 
full of corn, upon the chamber floor (where Mr. M'Clean was) which 
carried it down in an instant and killed Mr. Flett in the kitchen. 

1. The house was sawed through on each side of the pulpit and each end moved 
twelve feet, which gave an addition of twenty-eight pews on the lower floor. 

2. They were set off on their petition, to the First Parish. 

4. Until this time the County of York included the whole territory of Maine ; 
the Counties of Cumberland and Lincoln were now established, the former 
embracing the country now included in the Counties of Cumberland and O.\ford , 
the latter all east of it. 



184 smith's journai.. 

One of the servants was wounded, but the rest escaped in the 
chimney. ' 

25. I prayed at the funeral of Messrs. Flett and M'Clean. The 
largest and most solemn funeral that ever was in the town. People 
were very much affected. 

28. We have the confirmation and particulars of the late awful 
fires in Boston, viz : a fire at N. Boston on Monday noon, but soon 
extinguished. A fire on Thursday at Griffin's wharf, that endangered 
the magazine, but also soon put out. And a prodigious fire on 
Wednesday night, the greatest that ever was in America. It broke 
out in Cornhill at the widow Jackson's, and consumed all the south- 
east part of the town ; from thence, all the lower part of Milk street 
and the most of Water street, Pudding lane, Quaker lane and 
Mackrel lane, as far as Col. Wendell's wharf, containing 349 build- 
ings, i. e. 175 ware houses and shops, and 174 tenements inhabited 
by 220 families. * 

30. The loss by the late fire is computed to be £100,000 sterling, 
or a million old tenor. 

31. The General Court have voted for the use of the sufferers, 
£3000 lawful money. 

April 6. Sunday. We contributed £179 old tenor, for the 
sufferers by the fire. 

May 1. We have news of a cessation of arms. 

2. We hear that all hope of peace is over for this year, and that 
the contending nations are going at it in earnest. 

13. Visited among the soldiers under Capt. Ingersol, now going 
away. 

24. Sailed for Boston in Capt. Saunders. Put into Cape Ann. 

30. Got to Boston. Major Freeman and Capt. Pearson are in 
town about dividing the County. 

June 7. Rode to Dunstable. 10. Returned to Boston. 

1. John Flett and Aaron McLean; they were both twenty-six years old, and 
Scotchmen ; were buried in one grave. McLean was Deputy Collector, ftlr. 
Ross' house was on the corner of Middle street and the short street that leads into 
Clay Cove. Flett's sister married John Wildrage who came from Scotland with 
Capt. Ross, and was the mother of Capt. John Wildrage, and Margaret who died 
Jan. 1,1849, aged 82. 

* Minot says " it raged with such violence, that in about four hours it destroyed 
nearly a tenth part of the town. F. 



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12. Came away from.,Boston with an easy pretty breeze. 

13. The wind continued fair till near night when arose a dreadful 
north-east tempest, which drove us back to York. 

14. Got home P. M. with a pleasant north-west gale. 

23. Major Freeman and Capt. Pearson returned from Boston with 
news of the division of the County into three. 

24. News from Boston of the siege of Quebec's being raised, 
which occasions great joy. 

July 29, Lord Rutherford was to see me. He has lately been 
with some men of war from Louisburgh, in pursuit of three French 
vessels in the Bay of Chaleurs, and destroyed them. They were 
destined for Quebec, with stores. 

30. Col. Cushing has lost his sloop and negro ,* taken by the 
above French ships. 

31. I dined at Capt. Ross', with Lord Rutherford. 

August 19. Our people raised the steeple of the Meeting house ; 
I prayed with them. 

30. We have had no news this year except the raising the siege 
of Quebec. 

September 11. We have news of Gen. Amherst taking Isle Royal, 
thirty-five miles above Montreal. 

IS, We hear that Capt. Rowland has taken Isle Nut, St. Johns, 
and Chamble Forts, with an army of 5500 from Crown Point. 

20. News from Boston that our armies under Gen, Amherst, had 
joined at Montreal,* and taken it. Our people were there upon 
rejoicing all the afternoon. 

22, Our people are rejoicing again. Our house was illuminated, 
as were several others in the neighborhood, 

23, It is as sickly a time in Boston as has been known. 

24, Sickly here too. 

25, We hear a small army of Russians under Forequet, have 
been routed, and that he himself being taken afterwards, died of his 
wounds ; also that the right wing of Prince Ferdinand's army was 
routed with 1000 killed, 

* It was surrendered with Detroit, and all other places within the government of 
Canada, to his Britannic Majesty, on the 8th inst. The destruction of an arma- 
ment OTdered ont from France in aid of Canada, completed the annihilation of the 
French power on the continent of North America. F. 
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186 f Mini's JOURNAL. 

October 9. Thanksgiving for tlie reduction of all Canada, by 
taking Montreal. 

(There was a Council the latter part of this month at Brunswick, 
between Mr. Dunlap and his people, which terminated upon an agree- 
ment that he be dismissed, and that his people pay him all arrears 
and £200 old tenor.) ' 

31. And thus ended this difficult affair, to the surprise and joy of 
all concerned. The council Avas unanimous, and each party satisfied. 

November 4. We have news by the way of Halifax of a victory 
gained by the king of Prussia over General Laudaun, wherein the 
latter lost 7000 killed and 4000 taken. The king of Prussia lost 600. 

10. The new impression of the Psalm book was brought us, 380." 

14, We have the confirmation of tiie king of Prussia's victory 
over Laudaun, viz., that the Austrians lost 10,000 men and 5000 
prisoners and 82 cannon, and all their tents and baggage, and that 
the Prussians lost only 530 killed and 1000 wounded. 

26. We have a great deal of good news by the mast ships arrived 
at Portsmouth, viz : That Count Daun being recalled. Gen. Beck was 
beaten by the king of Prussia, with the loss of 23,000 killed and 
taken ; that Broglio was sick and his army retreating from Hanover. 
That Prince Henry had drubbed the Russians, and that the French 
interest in the East Indies was lost. 

(O, War ! What havoc dost thou make !) 

December 3. I dined with the new civil officers of this new county 
of Cumberland, upon their being sworn. ^ 

1. Mr. Smith's entry in the Church record, is as follows : "At the desire of 
the Rev. Mr. Dunlap and the Church at Brunswick, the Church voted to assist in 
Council with other Churches on occasion of uneasiness of the latter with tlie former, 
and sent Moses Pearson, Esq., Capt. John Waite and Mr. Jolin Miller, their dele- 
gates, who by mutual consent of Pastor and Church, dissolved the relation between 
them." Mr. Dunlap was born in Ireland in 1715, and educated at the University 
of Edinburg. He came to this country in 1736, and received Presbyterian ordi- 
nation at the French Protestant Church in Boston, for the Society at Brunswick, in 
1747. He died in 1776, and was grandfather of the late David Dunlap and his 
brothers, Richard and Robert P. 

2. This was Tate and Brady's version with the tunes annexed, for which £25 
had been raised in 1756. 

3. York, which had previously embraced the whole State, was now divided 
into three Counties, York, Cumberland and Lincoln, In May, 1760, the County 
officers for Cumberland, were as follows, viz : 



smith's journal. 187 

8, The people upon this Neck are in a sad toss about Dr. Coffin's 
having the small pox, which it is thought he took of a man at New 
Casco, of whom many there have taken it. It is also at Stroudwater. 

9. The uproar is quieted by the removing of Dr. Coffin to Noice's 
farm. 

28. I have married twenty-two couple the year past. 

(I have taken no notice of marriages in these extracts, nor of tlie 
frequent deaths of women and children ; but where the deaths of 
men are mentioned, I have thought it proper to notice them either in 
these extracts, or in the list of names at the end.) 

Additional items from the journal of this year. 

January 3. Mr. White, at Cape Ann, died. (Rev. John.) 

February 12. Old Mr. Flynt died ; Bishop Hancock's widow, also. 

March 1. Gov. Barnard had his commission. Mr. Bosworth left 
us, B. Wait begins to be troublesome. 

May. Mr. Sanders has four children, Lucy, Judith, Harriet, 
Thomas (by his daughter Lucy.) 

June. Preached for Mr. Cooper ; was at Dunstable 7th, last time. 

August IL Col. Waldo married first time. (To Miss Olive 
Grizzell, of Boston.) 

Sej)tember 10. Judge Sewall died. (Stephen Sewall, C. Justice 
of Massachusetts, aged 57; H. C. 1721.) 

The conquest of Canada completed by the taking of Montreal. 

26. Molly Godthwait died — (daughter of his second wife). Mr. 
Seacomb, of Kingston, died. 

October 29. Mr. Dunlap was dismissed — (of Brunswick.) 

November 20. Mr. Cook, of Sudbury, died. 

Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, John Minot, Ezekiel Cushing, Enoch 
Freeman and Edward Millikin : Minot was of Brunswick, Cushing of Cape 
Elizabeth, Freeman of Falmouth and Millikin of Scarborough. Judge ©f Probate, 
Samuel Waldo. Register, /. Stockbridge. Sheriff, Moses Pearson. Clerk of 
the Courts, Stephen Longfellow. Crier of the Court, Joshua Freeman. County 
Treasurer, James Milk. Register of Deeds, Enoch Freeman. 

In Enoch Freeman's diary, I find the following entry : " 1760, Jan. 31. Town 
of Falmouth, Dr. to sundry accounts. For going to Boston to petition the General 
Court for the division of the County, viz : To cash paid Dudson Kilhump for 
copying the petition from my rough draft, 2s ; do. to Secretary, 6s. 8d. ; the door- 
keeper, 4d. ; expenses going to Boston, wlule there and returning, 23 days, at 6s, 
f er day; horse hire, 32s. ; extra expenses, 18s. : total £9 17s. 



188 SMITHS JOUKNAL. 

1 701. 

January 6. We have now the news confirmed that king George, 
II, died of a rupture in his heart, the 25th October, aged 77 years, 
wanting 17 days; and that his grandson George, III, was proclaimed 
at Boston this day se'nnight. 

15, We have the great news of a complete victory gained by the 
king of Prussia over Count Daun and the whole Austrian army, but 
no particulars, 

February 14. I had an exceeding ill night, was greatly distressed, 
and a disposition to fits, 

28. I never, in my apprehension, more nearly looked death in the 
face ; my father being seized with fits about this time of life, (i. e. 
near 60.) 

(Mr. Smith was much engaged this month visiting and praying 
with the sick.) 

March 5, The two nights past I have been disquieted and 
distressed with the return of my old complaints, viz., a constant 
agitation at the pit of my stomach that expands all over me with 
quick startish convulsions. 

7. Had an extreme ill night. 

8. Sunday. A very full meeting ; was feeble, but greatly assisted. 
(Mr. Smith was freqently ill with colds, &c.; but at this time he 

was, in his apprehension, dangerously so. I have therefore noticed it.) 

9. Things remain in a dismal situation about the schoolmaster 
Richmond, a very worthless fellow, by means of which the peace of 
the neighborhood of the Neck is broken up and dreadful quarrelings 
occasioned. The old Selectmen sent him out of town, but he 
returned and kept school at . ' Annual Town meeting. Capt. 

1. I find the following entry in regard to Riclunond, on Enocii Freeman's 
memorandum book : " John Montague Riclunond, of Falmouth, yeoman, in £10, 
Alexander Ross, merchant, and Nathaniel Coffin, physician, as sureties, each m 
£5., that said Richmond shall appear at the Gen. Sessions to be held at said 
Falmouth, first Tuesday of September next, to answer his being presented for 
getting up and keeping school in said Falmouth, without the approbation of the 
Selectmen. E. P., Justice of the Peace." 

Richmond was an Irishman and very severe in his disciplme : the cause of this 
unusual excitement has not reached us, but it seems to have been sufficient to drive 
him from our community; we iiear no more of him allcr this. He appears to have 
been sustained by strong and influential friends. 



smith's JOUIINAL, 189 

Pearson, Moderator ; Mr. Stephen Longfellow, Town Clerk — though 

— tried to oust him. Selectmen reduced to three, (Capt. Milk, 

Deacon Merrill and Mr. Strout), by means of which, Deacon Cotton 
and Capt. Gooding were dropped. Capt. B. Wait ofTering to serve 
for nothing, was chosen Town Treasurer. Votes for a Register of the 
new County were brought in. Major Freeman and Nathaniel 
Moody were competitors. A workhouse was appointed. The meet- 
ing lasted two days. 

12. We were last night about a quarter after two, awakened and 
roused out of our beds by an astonishing earthquake, * much such as 
that five years ago ; only that in that there was a more terrible jar, 
and this was undulatory. We had a lecture on the occasion at 4 P. M. 

21. Having obtained help of God, I continue to this day, which 
makes me 59 years old. 

23. The uproar in town continues ; besides. Col. Waldo to day 
carried a complaint to Boston against Capt. Pearson, signed by 300. ' 

31. A sickly, dying, melancholy time. 
April 22. Mr. Bosworth came here. 

24. Our people made uncommon rejoicings yesterday, on occasion 
of the King's coronation. 

Matj 5. I prayed and dined with the Court ; the first for this new 
County of Cumberland. 

22. I had a very bad, sleepless night with many great convulsions 
through the night. I am entirely worn out with extraordinary 
service, at prayer continually and for want of sleep. 

26. I sat out with Mr. Codman on a journey to Boston ; (for his 
health it appears). — June 2. Rode to Boston (from Cape Ann) with 
Mr. Saunders. — 9. Came away from Boston by water. — 11. Got 
home more comfortable than ever in my life ; no fits — could sleep well. 

16. I prayed with Capt. Milk's little girl, of seven years old, sick 
and remarkably religiously impressed. 

* Two shocks were felt on the same day in all the New England Colonies. F. 

1. Moses Pearson; he was then Sheriff of the County and continued so for 
seven years after this; so that the allegations in the complaint, could not have been 
of very serious import. We imagine the whole of this aflair with Richmond's grew 
out of religious dissentions. Samuel Waldo was one of the most strenuous 
dissenters from the Old Parish, and successively promoted the schisms which pro- 
duced the New Casco and Stroudwater Parishes, and the Episcopal Church, 



190 smith's journal. 

26. Our people raised the spire of the steeple ; I prayed with them. 

July 7. We had a fast on occasion of a very distressing and 
increasing drought, Mr. Wiswell preached. There was a fresh 
shower just as we went out of the meeting house, which very much 
affected the people. — S. It pleased God to give us gentle showers 
from 9 to 12, A. M., to prepare for a wonderful great shower that 
followed, and lasted an hour, when the heavens gathered blackness, 
the rain poured down abundantly so as I never saw the like. 

17. I rode with Mr. Longfellow in the chaise to the mast ships 
(Darling and Hagget) which came in yesterday. I escaped signally 
from hurt by the chaise wheel running over me. 

24. By Brigadier Preble, from Boston, we have the confirmation 
of BeUeisle's being taken, and that the expedition to the Mississippi is 
given up. 

25. The fire is broke out and flames at Dunston, Gorham and N. 
Casco ; a most melancholy awful time. 

29. The man of war came in, Capt. Scarfi^, a 40 gun ship, to 
convoy the mast ships. 

August 7. I spent P. M. on board the man-of-war, with Koss, 
Pearson, Freeman and Longfellow. 

19. A great storm ; there has been no rain like it. Thus in the 
mount, God is seen, and thus God has began to work deliverance 
(when we have been brought a great while to an extremity) as he did 
in July 28th, 1749, a month before this time. 

23. Capt, Ross came in in a large ship to load ; as did Capt. 
Malcom some time ago, besides which, there lie here three mast ships 
and a man of war. 

31. My brother came here in Capt. Target, with the man of war 
that went from hence to Boston, to take and carry to France the 
merchants' money, viz., £22,000 sterling. The fleet consists of the 
man of war, Mr. Target, three mast ships, (Darling, Hagget and 
Mallard) and two brigs — seven in all. 

September 27. Sunday. An exceeding full meeting. Peter (Mr. 
Smith's son) preached here all day, to great acceptance. 

October, November. (There is nothing these two months. ) 

December 7. This evening we had very nearly lost our house. 
(Here are- enumerated a number of things that were burnt.) 

(Notwithstanding the illness of Mr. Smith this year, there seems 



SMITH S JOURNAL. 191 

to have been no remission of his ministerial labors; a close applica- 
tion to which, it is probable, if it was not the cause of his complaints, 
was unfavorable to his health. 

Additional items. — February 14. Had my hypochondriac fits. 

19. Mrs. Waldo died— (wife of Col. Samuel Waldo.) 

March 29. Mrs. Codman died, Mrs. Bangs, Mr. Bramhall, also. 
(Mrs. Codman was Kichard's wife and Phineas Jones' daughter, 
aged 19. Mrs. Bangs, wife of Joshua, in her 6oth year, mother of 
Gen. Preble's wffe.) 

A'prril 5. Mr. Stockbridge died ; a great sickness and mortality, 
(Joseph Stockbridge, first Eegister of Probate, son of David Stock- 
bridge, Esq., of Hanover, Mass., born 1737, grad. H. C. 1755, and 
settled in the practice of law probably at North Yarmouth, previous 
to his appointment as Register of Probate. He lived on the Neck at 
the time of his death.) 

August 11. Mr, Livermore died. (Probably Mathew Livermore, 
of Portsmouth, N. H., who practised in the Courts of Maine, among 
the earliest practitioners.) 

September 3. Butler and Little came to live here. (John Butler 
who married Nancy Codman, a Silversmith by trade, and a very 
respectable merchant before the Revolution, but better known in 
modern times as Crazy Butler. He died several years ago, after 1825? 
The Little was Paul Little, from Newbury, who resided here many 
years ; he married Hannah Emery, of Newbury, in 1762, and died 
in Windliam, about 1815, by whom he had Dr. Timothy, Moses, 
and Thomas, She died in Sept. 1771, and the next year he married 
Sarah Souther. He was a Goldsmith by trade, but pursued Com- 
mercial business ; he lived on King street before the Revolution. 

Dece^nber 7. We met with a great loss of our linen by fire. 

24. Mr. Wiswall taken distracted. (Rev, John Wiswall, of N. 
Casco ; he continued in a state of derangement for more than a year.) 

1762, 

Januarxj 4. Father Goodwin was buried. ' 

Februarij 5. We have news from London that the King of Prussia 
has saved his army without fighting, as Prince Ferdinand has done 
Hanover. 



1. Arthur Goodwin or Gooding, former Sexton of the Parisli. 



192 smith's jounNAL. 

8. Sterling, of Marblchead, (Windham) ?ays that the snow witii 
them is more than five feet deep. 

11. There is no passing from the Windmill to the Meeting house. ' 

28. A wonder of a winter this will be famous for, to posterity. 
The deep snow falling as early as the 3rd December; since which it 
kept snowing continually. 

March 1. A time of remarkable health in the country, and hardly 
any body sick in the Parish. 

(Mention is frequently made this month of the difficulty of passing 
on account of the depth of the snow.) 

31. God is appearing to work deliverance as he did at this time 
fourteen years ago, (1748) when we had just such a winter as this. 

April 4. Sunday. There is no riding on horseback, nor in a 
sleigh or chaise, but in a narrow bad foot path. 

7. We have news of the surrender of Martinico to Gen. Mont- 
calm ; that Admiral Saunders had taken a Spanish Galleon with half 
a million sterling, and that the Reteon man of war has taken a Kegis- 
ter ship worth £40,000 sterling. 

8. Our people are rejoicing upon the conquest of Martinico. 
May 11. We hear Spain declared war with England the 15th 

January. 

14. Collector Francis Waldo was chosen Representative. (His 
brother. Col. Sam. Waldo, had been for several years before.) 

24. Capt. Darling in a mast ship came here. He brings a confir- 
mation of the news of peace between the new Czar and the King of 
Prussia. 

Jujie 24. The Judges of the Supreme Court came to to^vn. 
Lynde and Russell stay here. " 

July 5. The woods are all a fire ; six houses, two saw mills, 
several barns and cattle were burnt at Dunston. Six families burnt 
out at North Yarmouth, and a vast deal of damage done in 
fences burnt, and fields and pasture laid open. 

1. The Windmill stood on the corner of School and Congress streets, on the 
spot now occupied by the brick house built by Samuel Ilussey, and now occupied 
by his daughter Mrs. Peter Morrill. 

2. The Judges of the Superior Court were Thomas Hutchinson, then Lt. Gov- 
ernor, Chief Justice, Benjamin Lynde, of Salem, John Gushing, Peter Oliver, of 
Middleboro, and Chambers Russell, of Charlestown. 



smith's journal. 193 

7. We had a Fast on occasion of the grievous drought ; not a very 
full meeting, many being at work about the fires. 

17. Mr. Wiswell (at Ne^f Casco) is close confined in the height of 
distraction. Domine Brown there. 

22. Our people are every day frolicing, notwithstanding the 
distress of fires. 

26. We have an account of St. Johns and New Foundland being 
taken by two line of battle French ships and a frigate, and about 
1600 land troops from Brest. 

2S. A day of public Prayer on occasion of the drought and famine 
feared. 

30. It pleased God to give us a steady rain for several hours. 
August 12. Pepperilborough gave Mr. Fairfield a call. ' 

13. It pleased God to give us a bounteous shower. — 16. Another. 
18. Another. — 21. A great deal. The earth is now wonderfully 
soaked and refreshed, and the grass begins to look green, — 30. The 
grass grows wonderfully. 

31. We have news of the taking Moor Castle at the Havana. 
September 6. Mr. Wiswell went to Boston last night. 

10. We have the good news that the Havana surrendered on the 
14th July. A great conquest in itself, but vastly great by the men of 
war we took and destroyed, together with an immense sum of dollars. 

22, An ordination at Windham (doubtless of his son Peter, 
though he is not named) a prodigious concourse of people, a great and 
admired solemnity ; Mr. Blorrell began with prayer ; Mr. Langdon 
preached ; I gave the Charge ; Mr. Loring gave the Right Hand of 
Fellowship ; Mr. Elvin prayed. It was thought by all to be the most 
finished solemnity of the kind ever known. ^ 

October 7. Public thanksgiving for our successes in war this year. 

19. Governor Barnard came here from the eastward. 

27. Mr. Fairfield was ordained at Pepperilborough. ^ 

1. Saco and Biddeford then bore the name of Pepperelboro' from Sir William, 
who had been a large proprietor there. 

2. Dr. S. Langdon, of Portsmouth, was the preacher. The others who offi- 
ciated, were neighboring ministers and have been previously mentioned : it was his 
son Peter's ordination. 

3. Rev. John Fairfield ; He was born in Boston Dec. 25, 1736, son of William 
who died 1770, leaving six children of whom John was the second. He grad. 

25 



194 smith's journal. 

29. Capt. Ross, in a large ship, of 700 tons, came here to loaJ, 
as did a Scow of his, a few days ago ; besides which, there are now 
five other ships and Scows here a loading. 

November 3. Mr. Miller was ordained at Brunswick. ' 

19. Mr. Wiswell returned to this place from Dr. How, of Andover, 

December. (No occurrences proper to be noticed.) 

Additional items omitted by Mr. Freeman. 

February 14. Mrs. Jefferds died. (Probably v/idow of Rev. Mr. 
Jefferds, of Wells.) 

March 29. Capt. Bangs died, (Joshua -). Hannah Smith died. 
Col. Waldo married. (Mr. Waldo's second wife was Miss Sarah 
Erving, of Boston, by whom he had six children, viz., Samuel, John, 
Erving, Francis, Ralph, Sarah and Lucy.) 
. July 17, Wiswall confined in a dark chamber. 

September 22. Mr. Townsend, of Gorham died. (The same who 
was settled in 1759.) 

at H. C. 1757. July 20, 1762, he married Mary, widow of Faxwell C. Cutis, Esq,, 
daughter of Ichabod Goodwin, of Berwick, by whom he had six children, the 
eldest of whom, Ichabod, was father of Gov. Fairfield. She died April 16, 1774, 
and he married Martha Ruggles, of Roxbury. In 1809, he married his third wife, 
who was his cousin, Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Fairfield, of Wenham. He died 
at Biddeford Dec. 16, 1819, in his 83rd year. A descendant writes me that " he 
was of the old school of divines, a very moderate Calvinist, verging on Arininianism, 
and on mtimate terms with the Rev. Mr. Webster, of Biddeford, one of the earliest 
Unitarians in this section of the country." 

1. Jolm Miller ; he was a native of Milton, Mass., and grad. at H. C. 1752, 
The Society which had hitherto maintained the Presbyterian form of government, 
now assumed a mixed character until 1769, when Mr. Miller declared himself a 
Congregatonalist. He continued in the ministry there until his death in 1789. 

2. Mr. Bangs came here from Harwich, Cape Cod, where he was born in 1635, 
and settled on the point east of Clay Cove, which he owned from the Cove to King 
street. He had a grant of a part of this, from the Proprietors, Oct. 28, 1735. He 
also owned Bangs' Island, which took its present name from him. He was a ship- 
master and merchant, and represented the town in the General Court, 1741. He 
had two sons, Joshua and Thomas, four daughters, Thankful, Sarah, Mehitabel and 
Susannah. Joshua married Sarah, eldest daughter of John Waite, and died in 
1755; Thomas married Mehitabel Stone, of Harwich, in 1751; Thankful married 
Samuel Cobb in 1740; Mehhabel born 1728, married first John Roberts, Jr., 1752, 
second, Jedediah Preble, 1754; Sarah married Gershom Rogers, 1756 ; Mary 
married Nath'l Gordon in 1754, and Susannah, Elijah Weare m 1761. Mr. Bangs 
was in his 77th year when he died. 



smith's journal. 195 

1763. 

January 1 . This year begins with a great breach made upon me. 
and a great change. 

2. Sunday. I went to meeting this morning under no apprehen- 
sion of my wife being near her end ; but last night she refusing to 
take any sustenance, and continuing to do it, alarmed me. 

3. At midnight my wife fell asleep and never awaked, but expired 
about four in the morning, without a sigh or a groan. 

6. Attended the funeral of Mrs. Smith. She wanted four months 
of 65 years. We had lived together near nineteen years. 

Febmary 4. Wednesday morning Brigadier Preble, Col. Waldo, 
Capt. Koss, Doct, Coffin, Nathaniel Moody, Mr. Webb and their 
wives, and Tate, sat out on a frolic to Ring's, and are not yet got back, 
nor like to be, the roads being not passable. 

5. Thomas and wife, Codman and Sally, Butler and Nancy Cod- 
man, with vast difficulty, returned that same day from Windham. 
We feared Butler had perished. ^ 

6. Sunday. Our people generally spent yesterday shoveling snow 
to the meeting house and elsewhere. — 9. We are every where shut 
up ; people are discouraged making paths. They say there is now 
five feet of snow upon a level, but it is mountainously drifted on the 
clear ground. It is a melancholy time, near a famine for bread. 

11. Our frolicers returned from Blackpoint, having been gone just 
ten days. They got homeward as far as Long Creek last night ; and 
with vast difficulty and expense reached home. 

13. Sunday. Pretty full meeting considering how difficult it was 
to get there. The people shoveled a footpath from Mr. Codman's new 
house to the meeting house, (now called Temple street) through three 
feet of snow, 

17. A cessation of arms was proclaimed at Boston on Monday last. 

20. Sunday, Still a difficulty in getting to the meeting house. 

27. Sunday. Thin meeting, it being very blustering and cold and 
difficult to get to the meeting house. 

1. Thomas and Sally were Mr. Smith's children. She afterwards married Mr. 
Codman, and Butler afterwards married Nancy Codman, Richard Codman's sister. 
February 4th was Friday ; the frolicers had therefore been absent three days : they 
did not return'until the 11th; they went to Scarborough by the way of Stroudwater 
and Long Creek. 



1«)6 smith's journal. 

28. There is no path any where through the country further than 
Stroudvvater and up to Windham. Mr. Marston was obliged to leave 
his horse at Hampton and come home with snow shoes, 

March 1. To day in God's gracious Providence we were relieved 
by the coming in of Blayhew's schooner from Connecticut with 1000 
bushels of Indian corn. Peeople were reduced to the last and 
extremest distress ; scarce a bushel in the whole eastern country. 

8. Yesterday and to day we had the coldest and longest storm this 
winter; there fell 19 inches, about as much as has been consumed. 

10. I married Samuel Green and Jane Gustin ; they came on 
snow shoes across the Cove from Capt. Ilsley's to my house. 

11. The definitive treaty of Peace between Great Britain, France 
and Spain with the accession of Portugal, was signed yesterday at 
Paris. 

18. and set up for Town Clerk and quarrelled 

dreadfully about it, but sat up a wrong person, and therefore did not 
succeed. The old officers were chosen. * 

19. set up my salary at £1000, but was opposed and pre- 
sented by . 

23. To day came in a sloop from Boston with 3000 bushels corn. 

24. A schooner came in from Cape Ann with 1600 bushels, which 
sells from 30s. or 27s. by the 100 bushels. Thus in God's merciful 
Providence we have again a most seasonable and full supply. 

25. Capt. Gooding got in with 2300 bushels more. 

A'pril 6. The robbin visited us.— 19. To day was the first passing 
through the country, by Mr. Russel. 

May 6. The earth has> most beautiful green face. I never knew 
the grass so forward nor so well set. 

31. I sat out on a journey to Boston alone. 

3une. 25. Got home well, thank God most fervently. 

3uhj. (There is no particular event proper to be extracted from the 
journal of this month.) 

Atigust 2. I rode to North Yarmouth and attended the funeral of 
Mr. Loring. ^ 

1. Stephen Longfellow was the candidate chosen. 

2. Rev. Nicholas Loring-, he died July 31, aged 52, a native of Hull, Mass. 
Hia wife was Mary Richmond, from Tiverton, R. L, who lived until ?=rpt. 15. 
1803, when she was 90 years old, 



smith's journal. 197 

11. Public thanksgiving for the peace. — 12. Capt. Brad. Saun- 
ders here with the Indians going to Boston to treat about peace. 

27. Captains Darling and Hagget, (in mast ships) came in last 
night, as did two ships before this week, to load by Capt. Eoss. 
By reason of the wet weather, my books and clothes have become 
mouldy, and we were not able to shut our inner doors, being swelled 
so through the whole summer. 

September 11. I have been discouraged about my enemies; they 
talk of a new meeting house. — October 28. The mast ship sailed. 

November 24 and 2S. and , are sending about a 

subscription for a new meeting house, in favor of Mr. Wiswell. 

December 13. Our attention is very much drawn in, and the most 
of our thoughts and talk is about the new meeting house for Mr. 
Wiswell, 

20. I spent the evening at Dr. Coffin's, who is breaking and 
decaying fast. 

29. Mr. Brooks here who has had a call at North Yarmouth. 

(Mr. Smith was dejected at times, this month, but at other times in 
good spirits. At the close of it he says it has pleased God to give 
him a year of trouble.) 

Additional items. 

February 23. Dr. Miller died. Wiswell recovered. 

March 9. Jeremiah Powell appointed first Justice. (He lived at 
North Yarmouth and held the office until 1781.) 

11. The definitive treaty of Peace signed at Paris. 

14. Mrs. Cushing seized with palsy. 

June 29. Recovered Peak's Island. (A suit had been pending for 
possession of this Island, Mr. Smith claimed under the Munjoy title.) 

July 31. Mr. Loring, of North Yarmouth, died. Mrs. Page was 
drowned. 

August 26. Mr. Cummins, of Boston, died, and Mr. Dumis, of 
Yarmouth. 

December 7. Hagar sold. Had a dwnal gloom on my mind. 

1764. 

January 27. We heard that old Harvard College was burnt lately. ' 

1. A particular account of this loss, with a view of the building, may be found 
^t the same date in Dr, Dcane's diary. 



198 smith's journal. 

30. I am very ill to day. I bless God that the cough 1 am now 
exercised with, did not happen when 1 was first wounded. (By a fall 
some time before, by which he had broken two of his ribs.) 

February 6. This evening the signers for the new meeting house 

had a meeting, when and quarreled and fought in the 

street. A foundation for a church was thus laid ^ =* ^ * * 
the pillars tremble. ' • 

12. Sunday. One Mr. Murray (an Irishman put in here from 
the eastward,) preached here P. M. ; extremely popular. ^ 

March 7. The people at Boston are all inoculating at the Castle 
and Shirley's Point with marvellous success, in the new method with 
mercury, &c. — 8. The guards at infected houses in Boston are 
removed, the people finding they can stop the spreading no longer. 

27. Annual Town meeting. Capt. Gooding and Milk added to 
the Selectmen because of the small pox. 

28. Parish meeting. Stroudwater again set off. A great strug- 
gle to get me an assistant, and all the principal men for it ; but 
headed the young men and the Stroudwaterer's in the opposi- 
tion and prevented it. 

April 4. Mr. Whitefield I hear is at York. 

12. Annual Fast ; I had marvellous assistance which I had rather 
note because I was in bondage before in thought of it by reason of a 
slowness of thinking and speaking that has come upon me, and takes 
away all fluency and makes me think I'm breaking ; but I never per- 
formed better. All praise to God who heard my cries. 

1. The combatants were Gen. Preble and Capt. John Waite. The controversy 
was probably about the form of government for the new Church, whether Episcopal 
or Congregational. The Waite family were among the seceders from the First 
Parish : it was on occasion of their departure, that Mr. Smith expressed a melan- 
choly forebeding for the old Society. He said the First Parish was like a clock, 
when the wails are off it will stop. 

2. Rev. John Murray, a Presbytefian from the County of Antrim, educated at 
Edinburg. He was now preaching at Boothbay in this State, where he was settled 
in 1767, and continued until 1779, an eloquent, able and efficient minister : he left 
that place much against the will of his parishioners, at the repeated and urgent 
solicitation of the people of the First Presbyterian church in Newburyport, rendered 
vacant by the death of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons. He was installed in 1781, and 
continued there until his death in 1793. He was a man of commanding presence, 
full and melodious voice, and one of the most popular preachers of the day. 



smith's journal, 199 

May 20. Sunday. Mr. Deane preached P. M. He came to town 
with Col. Tyng. — 27. Mr. Deane preached. ' 

June 13. Mr. Deane came here. — 17. Mr. Deane preached. — 
21. Mr. Bernard and Mr. Curwin came here. — 25. Mr. Curwin 
and Deane set off for Wiscasset. — 28. Messrs. Bernard, Curwin and 
Deane returned. — 29. Visited Mr. Bradbury, Mr. Chipman with the 
gout, and others. 

July 2. Messrs. Bernard, Curwin and Deane went off. 

3. We had a Church meeting, full, and unanimous in giving Mr. 
Deane a call. ^ 

4. Mr. Brooks was ordained. A multitude of people from my 
Parish, and a decent solemnity. ^ 

17. The Parish (at a meeting) concurred with the church in the 
choice of Mr. Deane by a great majority. They voted him a 
thousand settlement, and 700 salary. ■* The new meeting house men 
with the Stroudwater men, made their utmost opposition to Mr. 
Deane's settlement, but in vain. The meeting was peaceable. I have 

1. Rev. Samuel Deane who came as a candidate and was afterwards settled as 
colleague : of whom a full notice is given in another part of this work. 

2. Mr. Smith's entry in the Church record relative to this event is, " July 2. 
The Church had a meeting relative to a colleague pastor among them, and unani- 
mously made choice of Mr. Samuel Deane." "July 17. The Parish by a great 
majority concurred with the Church." " Sept. 2. Mr. Samuel Dean read his 
answer in public, being Lord's day, to the Church and Parish, in the affirmative. 

This is the last entry Mr. Smith made in the Church records. He was now 62 
years old, and had been settled thirty-seven and a half years. 

3. Rev. Edward Brooks; he was from Medford and graduated at H. C. 1757. 
A sumptuous dinner was given at the Ordination by the Society at an expense of 
il 16. The connection of Mr. Brooks with the Parish continued short of five years, 
when he returned to his native town and retired from the ministry. His wife was 
Abigail, daughter of the Rev. John Browne, of Haverhill, Mass., and sister of Rev. 
Thomas Browne, of the Stroudwater Parish. His children were Peter C Brooks, 
the eminent capitalist in Boston, and the late Cotton B., a merchant in Portland, 
who were born in North Yarmouth, with two daughters married to Messrs. Sam'l 
Gray, of Medford, and Nathaniel Hall, of Boston. His son. Cotton, was born in 
1765, and Peter in 1767. Mr. Brooks died in Medford, in March, 1781, aged 48. 
His widow, a woman of rare excellence, died in Nov. 1800, aged 69. Cotton B. 
died in 1834, aged 66, and Peter C. died in Boston Jan. 1, 1849, aged 82. 

4. The sums voted are put down by Mr. Smith, in old tenor, with which he 
was probably most familiar. The vote was actually £133 6s. 8d. settlement, axid 
.£100, lawful money, salary. 



200 smith's journal. 

been exceedingly earnest in prayer, I fail mucli, and have been 
greatly distressed about myself and the people ; but God has remarka- 
bly appeared, and the whole is a great scene of Providence. 

23. The new meeting men had a meeting and declared for the 
Church. They have been in a sad toss since the Parish meeting and 
made great uproar, getting to sign for the church. They began to 
frame the house. Mr. Bromfield here. 

August 15. There was a Council at Gorham that united the two 
Churches and dismissed Mr. Lombard. 

23. Capt. Hagget in a mast ship arrived with young Dr. Coffin. ' 

25. Mr. Deane came here. 

26. Mr. Deane preached ; a very full meeting. 

28. I had a great company drinking tea, among whom were Col. 
Powell and his sisters. 

30. Mr. Hooper ^ (Church parson) came here yesterday and with 
him Messrs. Tyng and Palmer. Gov. Bernard put in here. 

31. There is a sad uproar about Wiswell, who has declared for 
the Church and accepted (a day or two ago) of the call our Churchmen 
have given him to be their minister. It broke out on a sudden, and 
happily tended towards Mr. Deane's settlement. 

September 2. ^ Sunday. A great day this ! Mr. Hooper preached 
to our new Church people, and baptized several chiklxen. We had, 
notwithstanding, a full meeting, especially A. M., when I preached, 
and Mr. Deane P. M., who then gave his answer. 

3. Mr. Hooper with his company, Capt. Erving with his, and Mr. 
Deane with Capt. Pearson and Major Freeman, sat out for Boston. 
The corner stone of the church was laid by the Wardens, who with 
tlieir officers were chosen to day. 

9. Sunday. Mr. Wiswell preached in the Town house. 

26. Capt. Browm (who was here last year and whose ship sunk 
going home) came in here in another to load with masts. 

1. Son of Dr. Nathaniel Coffin, who had been to Europe to complete his educa- 
tion : he pursued his medical studies in Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals, London. 

2. Wm. Hooper; he was rector of Trinity Church, Boston, to which he was 
inducted in 1747, having been previously to 1746, a Congregational minister, and 
settled over the West Church in Boston. He was educated in Scotland, and died 
April 14, 1767. His son William, a graduate of H. C. 1760, was a member of 
Congress from North Carolina in 1776, and signed the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, although Mr. Jefferson pronounced him a rank tory. 



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50. Sunday, Mr. Wiswell preached in the Court house to a 
small company. 

October 4. Mr. Brown, late of Marshfield, came here in order to 
preach at Stroudwater. 

8. Mr. Wiswell sailed in the mast ship, Capt. Hagget. ^ 

11. Mr. Deane came to town, and with him Mr. Brooks, with his 
wife. — 17. Mr. Deane was ordained. A great solemnity, and a vast 
collection of people. Mr. Adams began with prayer, Mr. Meriam 
preached ; Mr. Morrell prayed before the charge ; I gave it j Peter 
gave the right hand of fellowship and Mr. Woodard closed with 
prayer. ' 

24. Mr. Eaton was ordained at Hai-pswell.^ The young folks 
have had a rampant frolic of it. 

November 24. Mr. Brown returned to Stroudwater. 

25. Sunday. Our Sabbath frolicers now ride to hear Brown, as 
they used to do Wiswell. "* 

27. I rode with Mr. Deane to Conant's and Proctor's ; I prayed 
with the former, who had his leg amputated by Nath'l Coffin, and Mr. 
Deane with the latter, who has his arm broken in two places. 

1. To England for Episcopal ordination, 

2. Who this Mr. Adams was I cannot determine ; there weje several ministers 
of that name at the lime. I think it was the Rev. Amos Adams, of Roxbury, a 
man of high reputation. Mr. Meriam was Jonas, of Newton, graduated H. C 
1753, died 1780; Samuel Woodard, of Weston, H. C. 1748, seUled at Weston in 
1751, died 1782. Moses Morrell, of Biddeford, H. C. 1737, settled at Biddeford 
1742, died 1777. Peter, was his son from Windham, 

3. Samuel Eaton, H. C. 1763, son of Elisha Eaton, the former pastor of that 
Parish, who died the same year. Mr. Eaton continued pastor of this Church until 
his death in 1822, at the age of 86 — a man of integrity, ability and independence. 

4. Rev. Thomas Brown, was son of Rev. John Brown, of Haverhill, Mass., 
and was born there in 1733. He graduated at H. C. 1752, was settled first ui 
Marshfield, and August 21, 1765, was installed over the Stroudwater Parish in 
Falmouth. He lived in the old wooden house now standing near Woodford's 
Corner, where he died in 1797. He was a man of keen wit and fine understanduig. 
His two sons, Thomas and William, now reside in this city; his sister married Rev. 
Mr. Brooks, of North Yarmouth. His wife was widow Lydia Howard, of Marsh- 
field, to whom he was married in 1763. She died in October, 1805. Since 
writing the above, we are obliged to record the death of Thomas Brown, who died 
March, 1849, aged 81. 

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December 11. I rode to Father Skillin's funeral. He reckoned he 
was in his 100th year. ' 

31. The winter thus far has paid us off. There has been nothing 
like it since the winter between 1747 and 1748. 

Obtaining help of God, I continue. I am in good health, but am 
slow in recollecting and thinking. 

Additional items. Jamiary 10. My ribs were broke. Capt. 
Minot died. — 16. Polly Saunders died. 

FehrvAiry 6. Preble and Waite fought. — 10, I was discouraged 
upon account of dulness, it was hypocondria. 

March 8. Inoculation practiced universally, all at once at Boston, 
April 22. Mr. Eaton, of Harpswell, died. (Rev. Elisha Eaton 
settled at Harpswell 1753, graduated H. C. 1729, father of Rev. 
Samuel Eaton.) 

Maij 15. Mr. Hill died ; old Mrs. Moody, of York.— Wyer mar- 
ried. (David Wyer, an Attorney at Law here ; he married Miss 
Russell, of Boston, a niece of Thomas Russell, in October. He was 
born in Charlestown, Mass., 1740, graduated at H. C. 175S, studied 
law with James Otis, of Boston, and pursued his profession in this 
town with considerable ability and success until his death in February, 
1776, at the early age of 35, He left one son, and a daughter who 
married Capt. Samuel Waite, of this place.) 
November. Gorham incorporated. 

Accounts were still kept in old tenor notwithstanding the paper was 
wholly out of circulation. The following memorandum of a remit- 
tance made by Enoch Freeman about this time to Boston, will show 
the kind of money in circulation, and its comparative value. 
52 Johannes £936 13 Guineas £136,10 

4 Maydores 53,10 2 Pistoles 16.10— $40,90 

The following memorandum is from a paper in Judge David Sew- 
all's hand writing, which ought to be preserved in a permanent form. 

1. This I believe to have been Benjamin SkiUiugs, who lived at Back Cove on 
a farm now included in James Deering's, He was son of Thomas, an ancient 
inhabitant, who received from George Cleeves, our first settler, a conveyance of the 
farm at Back Cove in 1658, where he lived, and where Benjamin was probably 
born in 1665. He was chosen Selectman of the town in 1719, His mother was 
Mary, a daughter of George Lewis, an old settler at Back Cove, who, after Lewis' 
death, married a Williams and lived in Salem, Mass. 



smith's journal, 203 

" December 13, 1764. 

In the First Parish, in York, are 292 families. 

413 males, 497 females, above 16 years of age, 910 
Under 16, males 367, females 378, 745 16-55 

In the Second Parish, are 105 families. 

Above 16, males 155, females 174, 329 

Under 16, males 129, females 108, 237 566 

In the whole town, 397 families, 272 houses. 
Males above 16, 568, females 671, 
Males under 16, 496, females 486, 

— ' 2221 

Neutral French 21 

Negroes. Above 16, 24 males, 13 females, 39, 

Under 16, 12 males, 5 females, 17, 56 2293 



York, Kittery, Benvick, Wells, Arundel and Pepperellboro' (Saco), 
consist of 1191 houses, 1618 families, 9986 souls, of which 43 are 
neutral French and 203 negroes." 

I may add that those were all the towns in the County of York, 
but Limington, which was very small. In Cumberland, were Scar- 
borough, Falmouth, New Gloucester, Windham, Gofham, Harpswell, 
North Yarmouth, Brunswick. In Lincoln, were Boothbay, George- 
town, Bristol, New Castle, Topsham, Pownalbot'o', (Wiscasset,) 
Woolwich. 

The population of the whole Province of Maine, by a census taken 
this year was 54,020 ; of Falmouth 3,770, contained in 585 families 
and occupying 460 houses. 

1765. 

January 3. The country from Boston to Portsmouth is entirely 
blocked with snow. 

16. Mr. Foxcroft was ordained at New Gloucester. We had a 
pleasant journey home ; Mr. L. was alert and kept us merry. A 
jolly ordination ; we lost sight of decorum. * 

1. Rev. Samuel Foxcrofl,the fostseUled minister in New Gloucester. He was 
son of Rev. Thomas Foxcroft, pastor of the First Church in Boston, and graduated 
at_ IL C. 1754. The Church first gathered there consisted of but eight male 



204 smith's journal. 

20. Sunday. Mr. Brown preached here. All the Churchmen, 
except Mr. Hope, came to meeting, and P. M. some that went to 
Stroudwater, and many going turned back. 

22. The ships and other vessels loading here are a wonderful 
benefit to us. They take off vast quantities of timber, masts, 
oar-rafters, boards, &c. 

February 25. A vessel from Newbury brought in 500 bushels of 
corn, and Dyer of Purpoodock 1000, which with the flour in town are 
a wonderful relief to the people. 

March 4. The Church at New Casco gave Mr. Fuller a call. ' 

10. One Davis brought from Boston 1000 bushels of corn ; and 
neighbor Mayo and Lieut. Thomes, 1000 more. 

12. Col. Waldo came home with Brigadier Preble and brings news 
that Stroudwater is made a Parish by the Court (with Long Creek) 
and that Purpoodock is not made a District. 

14. Jeremiah Potc came in from North Carolina and brought 
2900 bushels of corn ; Mr. Saunders sent here 500 bushels in 
a schooner that brought as much more. 

16. Father Proctor died in the night, aged 85. ^ 

members; they had no meeting house, and public worship was first held in the 
garrison. Mr. Foxcroft died in 1807. Col. Joseph E. Foxcroft, now of New 
Gloucester, is his son. The Mr. L. who was so alert, was Stephen Longfellow. 

1. Rev. Tunothy Fuller, II. C. 1760; he declined the invitation and was after- 
wards settled at Princeton, Mass. in 1767. lie died at Merrimac, N. H., July 5, 
1805, aged 66. His sons were Timothy, Abraham, Henry H. Williams, Elisha, 
all of whom but Abraham gi-aduated at H. C. 

2. Samuel Proctor ; borp in Danvers, 1680, son of John Proctor, who was 
executed for witchcraft in Salem ; his mother was also condemned, but not exe- 
cuted. They sustained unblemished characters both in Danvers and Ipswich, 
where he origmated from John Proctor, a man of property and respectability. 
Samuel came here from Lynn between Sept. 1717 and Nov. 1719 : his sons John 
and Benjamin, were born in Lynn, the former June 24, 1715, the latter Sept. 6, 
1717; ills son Samuel was born here Nov. 24, 1719. All his other children were 
born here; for particulars of wMch, see note on page 56. 

The house in wliich Benjamin lived, where his daughter Mrs. Wanen was born, 
and where Peter Warren afterwards lived, is now standing on the paternal estate, 
in the rear of the brick stores east of Market street : It is the oldest house in town , 
unless the Moody house on the corner of Franklin street, built in 1740, be an 
exception : there was an orchard connected with this property extending nearly 
to Middle street. 

His daughters married as follows : Sarah to John Cox, 1739, Kereinhabbuck to 



smith's journal. 205 

27. Annual Parish meeting. My full salary and Mr. Deane's were 
voted ne77iine contradicente. Forty returned their names and were 
therefore set off to Stroudwater Parish, and £48 L. M. were allowed 
them. The Church parties' petition to be exempted from paying to 
Mr. Deane's settlement and salary, was dismissed. The meeting was 
quite peaceable. ' Blessed be God. 

Aiprril 9. The robin this morning, first made his appearance. 

10. The Spring bird (as usual) came this morning and with the 
robin gave us a serenade. 

22. Stroudwater parish gave Mr. Brown a call. 

May S. I was over at the funeral of Col. Gushing, who died 
yesterday morning. " 

27. Doct. Coffin with the palsy, continues breathing. 

Juim 10. Mr. Deane set off for the ordination of Mr. Winship at 
Woolwich. ^ 

July 11. Mr. Deane's house was raised.^ 

29. I sat out for Cape Ann, with Sally and Peter in another 
chaise. 

Jos. Hicks, of Kittery, 1748, and to Anthooy Bracket, 1756, and Jeniimah to 
VVm. Gennis, 1755. His sons married as follows, viz., Benjamin to Sarah Favor, 
1740; John to Mary Tibbets, 1743, and Mary Huston, 1760; Samuel to Eliza 
Johnson, 1745; William to Charity Lunt, 1750, and Susannah Hall, 1760. 

His descendants in these branches are very numerous and scattered widely over 
the country. Anne, a daughter of Benjamin, married Peter Warren, Dec. 30, 
1778, whose children, Thomas Warren and Mrs. Eleazer Wyer, now occupy a 
portion of the property granted to Samuel by the town in 1721, and which was 
occupied by him to the time of his death. 

1. There were dismissed from the Church of the First Parish " m order to the 
embodying into a Fourth Church in Falmouth, Messrs. John Johnson, Nathaniel 
Knight, Joseph Riggs, John Bailey, Solomon Haskell, Clement Pennell, Benjamin 
Haskell, Jeremiah Riggs, Henry Knight, James Merrill, Anthony More, and such 
of their wives as are of our communion." 

2. " Ezekiel Cushmg, who lived on the point at Purpoodock, and a particular 
notice of whom is elsewhere given. 

3. Josiah Winship, the first settled minister in Woolwich; he graduated at H. 
C. 1762. At the time of his ordination, there were but twenty families in the town. 
He died in 1824, having been sole pastor more than fifty years. 

4. The house is now standing, next west of the church, owned and occupied 
by Samuel Chadwick. It was originally two stories high, with a hipped roof. The 
alteration made since the Dr. 's death, have so changed its identity that he could 
recognize no familiar feature about it. 



206 smith's journal, 

August 1. Got to Cape Ann about 10 o'clock. — 6. Kode to Bos- 
ton. — 12. Sat out for home. — 15. Got home well, thanks to God. 
Last night there was a great mob in Boston, that destroyed the new 
stamp house and attacked the Secretary's. 

21. Mr. Brown was installed. 

22. On Monday there was a second mob, that did violence to 
Capt. Halloway's and Story's houses and almost ruined the Lieut. 
Governor's, whose loss by it is computed at £30,000. Intoxicated by 
liquors, found in the cellar of Mr. Halloway, the rioters inflamed 
with rage, directed their course to the house of the Lieut. Gov. Hutch- 
inson, whose family was instantly dispersed, and who after attempt- 
ing in vain to save himself within doors, was also constrained to depart 
to save his life. By four in the morning, one of the best houses in 
the Province was completely in ruins, nothing remaining but the 
bare walls and floors. The plate, family pictures, most of the furni- 
ture, the wearing apparel, about £900 sterling in money, and the 
manuscript books which Mr. Hutchinsoil had been thirty years col- 
lecting, besides many public papers in his custody, were either carried 
ofT or destroyed. 

September 10. A mob lately attacked with great outrage, Mr. 
Bennet, and did great damage. — 12. We hear of mobs continually 
at Newport, Connecticut, &c. as well as in this Province. Affairs 
seem to be ripening to an universal mob ; all relative to the Stamp 
officers, wlio are obliged to give up their commissions, 

18. We hear there is a change in the ministry at home wliicli 
gives great joy, and puts a stop to that of mobs relative to the Stamp 
Act. 

25. The General Court was called together with respect to the 
distressed state of the country, and the universal uneasiness and op- 
position to the Stamp Act. 

October 23. The General Court met about the Stamp Act. 

25. Mr. Thrasher was found dead this morning in his loft. ' 

November 6. Mr. Williams was ordained at New-Casco. ^ 

1. Mr. Thrasher was a SaOmaker and Hved hi India street; a daughter of hia 
married Josiah Tucker, and was the mother of Daniel and Jonatlian Tucker and 
several other children. 

2. Rev. Ebenezer Williams; lie was a native of Roxbury, Mass., and graduated 
at H. C. 1760. He coutiaiied in the ramistry over the New Casco Parish until liis 
death in 1799. 



smith's journal, 207 

7. Mr. Savage came with his wife to live here. ' 

December 23. I prayed witli Mrs. Cox on the news of the death 
of her husband. " 

28. News of Mr. Puddington being cast away. ^ 

Additional items. 

January. Dr. Wigglesworth died. (Edward, Prof, of Theology 
at Harvard College.) 

May 7. Wiswell returned from London. Mrs. Moody seized with 
the palsy. Mr. Butler (John) opened a shop of goods. 

July. Mr. Savage came here. Brother John sailed for England. 
Had new wig and clothes. 

October 8. Mr. Hope died ; also Thrasher. (James Hope was a 
merchant. His widow was living in Bristol, England, upon the 
interest of her money, in 1777. Hia will gave rise to a controversy 
noticed under 1766.) 

1766. 

January 8. A mob here assembled, threatened the custom-house. 
14. Doct. Coffin, (who died on Saturday, the 11th,) was buried. "^ 

1. Arthur Savage; he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs at this port. 
He had previously been an Auctioneer in Boston. He lived in the house now 
occupied by Thompson as a public house, under the name of the Casco House. In 
Nov. 1771, he was mobbed by the popular party, and soon after went to Boston 
and did not return. He abandoned the country for England in 1776, and was pro- 
scribed by the Act of 1778. 

2. Joseph Cox; his wife was Mary Bailey, to whom he was married in 1749. 

3. Three men, viz., Daniel Thomas, Jona. Symmond, and another from Cape 
Porpus, were drowned, and vessel and cargo lost. She was owned by the Waites 
and the Master. 

4. Dr. Nathaniel Coffin; he was born in Newbury in 1716, son of John Coffin, 
In 1739 he married Patience Hall, by whom he had Sarah, Nathaniel, Jeremiah 
Powell, Francis, Mary and Dorcas. Mary, born in 1756, married Samuel Juie, a 
merchant of Antigua, and afterwards Charles Harford ; Dorcas married Capt. 
Thomas Colson, of Bristol, England, who came in mast ships to this place, and 
became obnoxious to the people by his tory prmciples. His wife followed him to 
England at the commencement of hostilities, where they both died. Of his son 
Nathaniel, who passed a long and honorable life in this town in the practice of his 
profession, we shall have more to say on another occasion. The widow of the 
elder Dr., died Jan. 31, 1772, aged 57. Colson and lais wife were living in England 
during the revolution. She died about 1800. Jeremiah died previous to 1801 ; 
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208 smith's journal. 

23. This morning- at 5 o'clock, we had a very alarming eartii- 
quake, though not so great as that five years ago, yet continued as 

lono-. 24. We had the repetition of an earthquake in several 

smaller shocks. 

February 12. We have had news for a good while of a change in 
the ministry at home. The Duke of Grafton, and General Conway, 
Secretaries in the room of the execrable Earl of Bute, and Mr. 
Greenville, which gives us great joy, with respect to the hopeful pros- 
pect of a redress of our colony grievances. 

28. We have had of late, several vessels from England with 
abundance of news relative to the Stamp Act, mostly promising a 
repeal or suspension of it. The nation, (city and country, merchants 
and manufacturers) are in a mighty toss about it, and the Parliament 
know not what to do between a desire of relieving us, and saving 
their own credit and authority. It was a rash thing, occasioned by 
Mr. H. ' and other New England men, ripened by Mr. Greenville and 
the old ministry* 

March 1. .In the course of the year past there have died, the Duke 
of Cumberland ; the Prince William of the royal blood of England ; 
the Emperor of Germany ; the Dauphin of France ; the Princess 
Dowager of Orange ; the reigning Duke of Amhalt ; the Duke of 
Parma ; the Dukes of Bolton and Dorset, and other great personages. 

14. To-day was as great a N. E. storm of snow as ever was 
known, perhaps greater.— 20. Harper came in with 3000 bushels of 
corn. 

25. Annual town meeting, very full. The principal officers, the 
same as last year, except Mr. Ephraim Jones in the room of Maj. 
Waite. 

2G. Annual parish meeting. They established my salary for the 
future (with my consent) £750 0. T. the same with Mr. Deane's. 
The ofiicers same as last year. 

30. Had six pounds of Brewster's chocolate at 14d. a pound. 

(I noticed this as one of hundreds of instances noted in Mr. Smith's 
Journals, to show how fond he was of this nutritious article.) 

31. The talk and concern of people since the storm, (the 14th) is 
about Weeks & Company. We have good news from home that 

1. Governor Hutchinson is probably here intended. 



smith's journal. 209 

gives us hopes of the repeal of the Stamp Act. Mr. Pitt has very 
zealously engaged in our interest, and the ministry is so. 

April 3. I married Mr. Deane with Eunice Pearson. * 

May 16. Capt. Tate in a large mast ship, came here, in 30 days 
from London, and 24 from Land's End, who brings certain news that 
the Stamp Act is repealed, — 18. We had an express with confirma- 
tion of the repeal of the Stamp Act. — 19. Our people are mad with 
drink and joy j bells ringing, drums beating, colors flying, the court- 
house illuminated and some others, and a bonfire, and a deluge of 
drunkenness. — 20, Our house was illuminated, and a great many 
others. 

June 24. The mast ship sailed. Capt. Haslop came in, and a 
ship from Barbadoes. The Supreme Court sat. Judge Lynde here 
also. ^ 

29. (Sunday) the Lieut. Governor, Judge Oliver, Mr. GofF, Mr. 
Winthrop and Mr. Bowdoin, at meeting. 

July 24. Public thanksgiving on account of the repeal of the 
Stamp Act. 

August 10. I was married (to the widow Wendell.) 

September 1. The town is full of strangers. — 30. There is a 
great change in the ministry at home. Mr. Pitt made a Viscount and 
Earl, and in great favor. 

October 29. There is a council meets at North- Yarmouth to-day, 

1. His colleague ; his wife was daughter of Moses Pearson, and born Jan. 25, 
1727; about six years before her husband. 

2. The Court was composed of C. J. Hutchinson, Benjamin Lynde, John 
Gushing and Peter Oliver, who were all present. The great case, Jeffries v. Don- 
nell, was tried at this term. It was ejectment for part of the present town of Bath, 
in which the title of the Proprietors of the Kennebec Purchase was involved, and 
which was decided for the Defendant. The Plaintiff claimed under the Kennebec 
Proprietors, who derived their title from the Plymouth Company. The Defendant 
claimed under a purchase from the Indians made by Robert Gutch, the first settler 
of Bath, before 1670. The most efficient legal talent of the country was enlisted 
in the cause; for the Plf, were Jeremiah Gritlley and James Otis, Jr., of Boston, 
and William Cushing, of Pownalboro', now Wiscasset, afterwards Judge of the 
Sup. Court of the United States. On the other side, were Wm. Parker, of Ports- 
mouth, afterwards Judge of the Superior Court of N. H., who died 1781, Daniel 
Farnham, of Newbury and David Sewall, of York. An appeal was claimed to the 
King in Council, but denied by the Court, and final judgment entered. 

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210 smith's journal. 

viz : Messrs. Chandler, Hale, Langdon, Stevens, Lancton and Morrill, 
with delegates. * 

Noveviber 1. There are six large ships now lying in the harbor. 

17. I had 19 pounds of chocolate. 

19. There are great and universal complaints for want of money, 
(a lamentable occurrence, but not an uncommon one.) 

28. Col, Powell and the justices are together all this week, taking 
evidence about Mr. Hope's will. " 

December. (Nothing suitable to the design of these extracts.) 

1767. 

January 1. Had 33 lbs. of Brewster's chocolate. 

15. Deacon Milk broke his thigh ; this is the third time. 

19, 1 returned (from Windham) on horseback. (This mode of 
riding, Mr, Smith might have mentioned because he went there in a 
sleigh ; and I notice it because I was just now reflecting, that notwith- 
standing his age, it appears to have been his usual way of riding out ; 
(unless when he took his wife with him) he was fond of a good horse, 
and of riding on his back, and well knew how to manage one.) 

February 3. There has been a great fire at Boston, it consumed 
twenty dwelling-houses, besides other buildings, mostly in Paddy's 
Alley. 

24. Mr. Craft returned from Boston. A broken heir of old Hope, 
his will being vacated. 

15. Visited Capt. Ross, under a course of mercury, for a cancer. 

28. The controversy and uneasiness with the Governor continues 
and increases. 

1, This was held in consequence of a disaffection in Mr. Brook's Parish. 

2, James Hope came here from Stoke Damerell, in the County of Devon, 
where he was residing in 1762. He left his family there consisting of his wife and 
one daughter. Oct. 16, 1765, he made his will in Falmouth in which he gave all 
his property to a young man named Jona. Craft, who had been his Clerk about a 
month. His wife is not mentioned in the will, and his daughter only to receive 
half of the women's apparel in the house, and his housekeeper the other half; 
David Wyer probably drew the will, as he was a witness. The will was approved 
by the Judge of Probate, April, 1766. But in September following, his widow 
appealed to the Governor and Council, then the Supreme Court of Probate, for the 
reason among others that he was of unsound mind. The decree of the Judge of 
Probate was reversed and the will declared void. 



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March 5. John Cotton has had three lectures lately in this neigh- 
borhood. ' — 17. He continues them. 

21. Obtaining help of God, I continue to this day, on which I am 
65 years of age. I bless God heartily, I have my health, and am 
stronger than I was through most of my younger life. ' 

Ap?-il 22. Craft broke into goal by the assistance of mother Hope, 

May 15. Brigadier Preble was chosen our representative, without 
opposition. 

Jjme 5. Curtis Chute and one Young, were killed in an instant by 
the lightning, at the widow Gooding's ; Harrison and others hurt and 
near being killed, and the house near being destroyed also. 

30. I sat out with my wife on a journey for Boston. 

Jzdy 28. We got home. 

(On the 31st of this month, there was a violent hurricane in 
Falmouth, which (as Mr. Smith did not notice it) I have obtained an 
account of, from a friend, as follows, viz: "It commenced near 
Sebago Pond, took an easterly direction, passing through Windham, 
and directly over the Duck Pond, passed through the north part of 
Falmouth, and the south part of North Yarmouth, (now Cumberland) 
to the sea. It appears to have been the most violent in the town of 
Falmouth. It took the roof off the house of Mr. Purrington, situated 
near the Duck Pond, and prostrated every tree in its way,^except a 
few sturdy oaks, but abated in some measure after it entered North 
Yannouth, so as not to do much damage in that town. It extended 
in breadth about three quarters of a mile.") 

August 30. Mr. Thatcher preached all day. Mr. Deane for him." 

September 14. Mr. Thatcher gave his answer to Gorham. 

16. We have melancholy news from home, viz : That the Parlia- 
ment have passed a bill to prevent New- York from acting in General 
Court until they comply with the billetings of the king's troops there , 
and fixing salaries upon the Judges, to be paid in duties laid upon 
wine imported, and many other articles. 

1. John Cotton was son of Wm. Cotton, born 1741 ; he was msane at times. 

2. Josiah Thatcher, settled at Gorham m October of this year. He was born in 
Lebanon, Conn. ; graduated at Princeton Coll., N. J., 1760. He was dismissed from 
the pastoral office in Gorham in 1779, and like his predecessor in the same Parish, 
Mr. Lombard, he was appointed Judge of the Court of Commpu Pleas in 178-1, 
which he retained until 1799. 



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October 8. Capt. Ross sailed for England in Capt. Heath with 
Capt. Haslop. 
28. Mr. Thatcher was ordained, (at Gorham.) 
November. (Nothing to be noticed.) 
December 12. I hear Wm. Tyng is appointed our sheriff. ' 

Additional items. 

January 26. We hear of Judge Russell and President Clap's 
death. (Chambers Russell, Judge of the Supreme Court of Mass., 
H. C. 1731. Thomas Clap, President of Yale College, H. C. 1722.) 

April 14. We hear of Mr. Sherboum's, Parson Hooper's and Mr. 
Eaton's death. (Henry Sherburne, H. C. 1728. Wm. Hooper, 
before mentioned 1764, rector of Trinity Church, Boston. What 
Eaton it was, I do not know.) 

May 15. Mr. Lowell, of Newbury, and Mr. Martin, of North- 

1. Col. Wm. Tyng; he was a descendant in the fifth generation from George 
Cleeves, the first settler of Portland, through his daughter Elizabeth, who married 
Michael Mitton, whose second daughter Elizabeth, married Thaddeus Clark, whose 
daughter Elizabeth, married Edward Tyng, whose son Edward was born in Port- 
land in 1683. William, son of the latter, was born in Boston August 17, 1737, and 
was brout^ht up in that place as a merchant. The only survivors of the seven 
children of his father were Ann, who married a British officer in 1756, and died a 
month after; Edward, an officer m the British army, who died a bachelor in 
England, 1776, and William, our Sheriff, who died childless and was the last 
descendant of the first Edward, bearing the family name. He kept a store in 
Cornhill, Boston, previous to his appointment as Sheriff. In 1769, he married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Ross, with whom he lived on terms of affectionate 
tenderness to the close of his life. In 1774, he received a Colonel's commission 
from Gov. Gage; but the next year he was obliged to leave the country on account 
of his loyalist principles, and his property was confiscated. The large tract of land 
where State street now is, twenty-two acres, extending from Congress street to 
Fore river, was part of his estate. He took up his residence in New York until the 
termination of the war, where he made himself useful to American prisoners. 
Edward Preble, then a young man, afterwards the Commodore, who was carried in 
there a prisoner, was released by his influence. He went to Nova Scotia after the 
war, where he was appointed Agent for the loyalists, and Chief Justice of the 
Court of Common Pleas. He returned to this country in 1793, and settled in 
Gorham in the quiet pursuits of private life, discharging all the duties of a good man 
until his death by apoplexy, Dec. 10, 1807. His wife survived him, and terminated 
her life at a ripe old age in 1831. The manners of both, were true representations 
of the old school ; and though courteous and dignified, they were always amiable 
and kind. 



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borough, died. (Rev. John LowelJ, father of Judge Lowell, H. C. 
1721, and Rev. John Martyn, H. C. 1724.) 

August 10. Mr. Parkman, of Boston, died, and Col. Tyng's son John. 

September. Heard of old Mr. Wiswell's death. (The school- 
master in Boston.) 

October. Deacon Cobb died. (Samuel Cobb, the first of the name 
who came here ; a notice of whom may be found on page 58.) 

November. Had new black cloak and gown and breeches. 

December. Sheriff Tyng appointed ; and Mr. Sewall, King's Att'y. 

1768. 

(There does not appear to be any thing in the Journal of the first 
five months of this year that merits particular notice.) 

June 1 Mr. Winter was ordained at Georgetown. ' 

20. There was a mob in Boston on Friday caused by seizing 
Hancock's sloop. The town is in a sad toss, on account of the 
Commissioners, &c. — July 8. The Commissioners are fled to the 
Castle, which is guarded by men-of-war. 

Juhj 1. Mr, Chipman was seized with an apopletic fit and died in 
two or three hours. " 

Matters are in a sad toss at Boston. The Governor havin"- 
dissolved the Assembly. 

20, Capt. Ross arrived here in a mast ship (Capt. Moore.) 

30. John Cotton has been here night and day in King street, 
roaring, exhorting, and warning and praying ever since yesterday 
se'nnight. He is very crazy. 

1. Francis Winter who graduated at H. C. 1765. He was settled in the part of 
Georgetown afterwaids incorporated as Bath. He was a man of liberal principles, 
of eloquence and learning. His ministry continued only until 1787, when he was 
dismissed, from an opposition to his religious views, which had caused, almost from 
the day of his settlement, a disagreement in the Parish. He afterwards was an 
active magistrate, representative of the town several years, and a useful citizen. 
He died in 1826, at the age of 82. Samuel Winter late of this city was his son. 

2. John Cliipman, an able lawyer of Marblehead, who graduated at H. C. 1738. 
He was son of the Rev. John Chipman, father of the late Wm. Gray's wife and of 
Ward Chipman, of New Brunswick, agent of the British government in the settle- 
ment of the boundary line under the treaty of 1783, Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court there, and grandfather of Ward Chipman the present Chief Justice of New 
Brunswick. He was seized with the fit in the Court house in this town, while tlie 
Court was in session. 



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August 24. There was a mob to rescue Nathan Winslow from 
jail ; but they were defeated. ' 

September IS. An express arrived from Boston to have the mind 
of the several towns with respect to the troops expected there. 

20. Fast at Boston on account of the distressed state of the 
Province. — 21. Town meeting to consider of the express from 
Boston. Chose Brigadier Preble to go to Boston to join the proposed 
Committee of Safety for the Province in our present distress. 

30. We hear that Col. Dalrymple arrived on Wednesday from 
Halifax at Boston with two regiments, 1000 men. 

October 1. Mr. Tompson, and the Proprietors of Pearsontown, 
(now Standish) closed as to his settlement The ships came up and 
invested Boston, and the troops landed. — 6. Things are in a sad pass 
in the country. — 26. Mr. Tompson ordained. ' Ministers, Messrs. 
Williams, Brown who preached, Smith, Foxcroft, Deane. 

27. Council at North Yarmouth. Mr. Brooks' men all failed. 

November 2. The Council at North Yarmouth broke up, having 
advised Mr. Brooks to ask a dismission, and the people to give him 
£50 L. M. He has been at North Yarmouth just five years. ^ 



1. The jail stood where the City Hall now stands; the Jailor, who at that time 
was Daniel Ilsley, father of Isaac Ilsley, our aged fellow citizen, lived in part of 
the building; Isaac, who was then three years old, was seized from his bed by the 
servant and carried over the way to Dr. Deane's house for protection. ]\Ir. 
Winslow was committed to jail May 26, 1768, on an execution m favor of Wm. 
Molineux, of Boston, for about £2657. The people did not think the debt a just 
one, and that he ought not to be put in jail for it, and therefore endeavored to 
rescue him. 

2. Rev. John Tompson, son of Rev. Wm. Tompson, of Scarborough. He was 
the first settled minister of Standish, but was ordamed at the Meeting house of the 
1st Parish in this town : he graduated at H. C. in 1765. The Proprietors of 
Standish supported him five years; but in 1781 the town bemg unable to support 
him, his labors were suspended, and in 1783 he was settled at Berwick, where he 
died in 1828, aged 88. He was twice married, first in 1768 to Sarah Small, of 
Somersworth, by whom he had eight children, the eldest of whom William, is now 
living in Scarboro'. She died in 1783 : and the next year he married Sarah 
Morrell, by whom he had two children. 

3. The cause of Mr. Brook's dismission was a difference of religious opinion 
upon some dogmas, between him and a majority of his church. He was inclined to 
more liberal views than his people had been accustomed to : he had a very 
respectable minority with him. His views corresponded with tliose of Dr. Deane, 
Dr. Hemmeuway, Dr. 3Iayhca, Dr. Chauncey and others. 



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10, The Cork troops arrived at Boston, whicli puts the town anew 
in great confusion. 

28. I prayed at the funeral of Capt. Ross. ' 

December 8. Deacon Cotton died this morning. ^ 

Additional items. 

January 20. We rode to Windham and round Gorham in sleio-hs. 

March 22. I gave Treasurer Milk a receipt in full for the year 
1764 and 1765. 

April 4. Old Mr. Prout died ; Mr. Checkley also of the Old 
North, Boston. Col. Foxcroft, of Cambridge, died, and old Dr. Clark, 

May. Mr. Gary ordained at Newbury, Mr. Lothrop, in Boston. 

June 8. Mr, Clark, of Danvers, died. Brother John died April 6, 

July 1. Mr. Chipman died. Mr. Thatcher married. Mr. Bowen 
died, 

8. Affairs in a great toss in Boston and the Commissioners fled to 
the Castle, — 29, Capt. Cobb moved to New Casco. (His name was 
Samuel; he was son of Deacon Samuel Cobb, who died 1767. He 
was a great ship builder and carried on his business both here and at 
new Casco. He had two sons Samuel and William.) 

Aitgust 30, Mr, Potter and Wallis died ; Major Cutts and Clerk 
Frost, also ; Capt, Osborne, Mr. Condy and Paddeshall, 

October. Classmate died. (I cannot make the name out 

either from the journal or the College catalogue, Shearjasub Bourne 
and Peter Reynolds are put down as having died that year. 

Decemher 13. Mr. Ward Cotton, of Hampton, died, and Mr, 
Greene, of Yarmouth, 

1. Capt. Alexander Ross, the father of Mrs Tyng; he died Nov. 2, aged 59. 

2, Wm. Cotton, aged 58. He came from Portsmouth, N. H. about 1732, and 
purchased a large tract of land on Fore street, between Centre and Cross streets, 
where he established an extensive tannery, which has been continued by his 
descendants ever since. He was appointed Deacon of the 1st Church in 1744, in 
wliich office he continued until his death. His first wife, Sarah, died May 3, 1753, 
in her 48th year ; by her he had all liis children but one. In November of the same 
year, he married widow Martha Hudson, who survived hmi and died December 10, 
1784, aged 65. His children were Sarah, William hon\ 11 ^Q\ Jo/m born 1741; 
Abigail born 1742, and Mary born 1754. Sarah married first William Thomes, 
second, Elisha Turner; William married Elizabeth Cobb, 1759; Abigail married 
Ebenezer Owen, 1763, and Mary married, first. Moses Holt, 1771, second, Stephen 
Hall, 1778. 



216 smith's journal. 

1769. 

Jamiary. (Nothing remarkable.) Fehntary 2. Holland is torn 
to pieces by Hinkley, and other creditors.' March 24. Church 
meeting. Messrs. Moody and Titcomb chosen Deacons. ^ 

April 6. Sunday. It was so dark I could with difficulty read my 
notes. (No wonder, for his sermons were written in as fine a hand 
as his journal ; about equal to a brevier type.) 

8. I first heard the spring bird. The robin came a week ago. 

22. The House of Commons, have concurred with the House of 
Lords against us, and our public affairs have a dark face and prospect. 

Ma7j 30. There v/as a famous Election this week. Eleven new 
Counsellors chosen. The Governor negatived nine of them, together 
with Brattle and Bowdoin. Hawley refused. Cushing is Speaker 
and Adams Clerk. 

June 19. News that the Governor is ordered home, and that the 
General Court is adjourned to Cambridge ; and that two of the 
regiments are ordered to Halifax, one to New York, and the other to 
our Castle, July. (Nothing remarkable.) 

August 2. Governor Bernard sailed this week. 

September 8. Sac. Lecture. Mr. Deane preached on the Comet, 
which now appears. — 26. Sat out for Boston. — Oct 13. Got home. 

19. There was a considerable Earthquake last night, and another 
to-day at noon. November. (Nothing to be noticed.) 

December 6. The Council at N. Yarmouth met for the Ordination. 

8. Mr. Gilman was ordained. Mr. Deane preached. '^ 



1. Wm. Holland, a trader here; he lived in the house now occupied by Dr. 
Durgin, in Exchange street, which then stood on Middle street, where Exchange 
street enters it. 

2. Nathaniel Green Moody and Benjamin Titcomb in the place of Wm. Cotton, 
deceased and Samuel Cobb, removed to New Casco. Mr. Moody was son of Dr. 
Samuel Moody and was born m this town February 3, 1726. His grandmother, 
the wife of Major Samuel Moody, was daughter of Nathaniel Green, of Boston, 
whence he derived his name. 

3. Tristram Gilman, was a native of Exeter, N. H.; graduated at H. C. 1757. 
He died April 1, 1809— an excellent man and faithful pastor. I believe there is an 
error m saying that Mr. Deane preached. Mr. Deane, in his diary says Mr. 
McClintock preached. Dr. Mc. Clintock was of Greenland, N. H., and very cele- 
brated in his day. The other services were performed as follows : Prayer, by Mr. 
Lyman, of York; Charge, by Mr. MorrUl, of Biddeford; Right Hand, by Mr. 
Eaton, of Harpswell; Ordaining prayer, by Mr. Little, of Wells. 



smith's journal. 217 

Additional items. 

June 1. President Holyoke died, (of Harvard College;) Mr. 
Foxcroft also. 

Jvly. Dr. Sewall died ; Mrs. Tyler also. 

September. Had a new wig, a rich one, and hat. Had my super- 
fine black clothes. 

November 3. Capt. Wait died. I married Tyng. (Wm. Tyng 
to Elizabeth Ross. Capt. Jolin Waite ; he came from Newbury and 
was father of the Sheriff John. See more particulars page 117.) 

December. Old Mr. Checldey died. — 8. Mr. Anderson died. 

1770. 

January 24. John went over the Ferry in a sleigh, and back in 
six minutes. — 25. The Dutch sleigh went over four times and 
returned in thirty minutes. 

February 28. We have had a close winter : as cold perhaps as 
ever was. 

March 10. Mr. Lyde, (our new Collector) came to town yesterday. * 

12. There have of late been many frays between the soldiers and 
the inhabitants of Boston, occasioned by the abuses from the former ; 
but last Monday evening there was a very tragic one. The soldiers 
in King-street fired on the people and killed four upon the spot, 
mortally wounded two more, besides wounding five others. The town 
is in a great ferment and met the next day, as did also the Governor and 
Council. The captain and the murderous soldiers were apprehended 
and committed, and the troops sent to the Castle. 

21. Obtaining help from God, I continue, and am this day 68 
years old : a wonder to myself and others. 

26. We have the King's Speech to the Parliament (9th January) 
which has the same unfavorable spirit as the former one against us. 

April 12. Mr. Hubbard is dropped from being Commissary, and 

1. George Lyde, was appointed successor to Francis Waldo. He continued in 
the office until the Revolution, when, joining the royal party, he left the country 
and was proscribed in 1778. He came here from Boston. The Custom house was 
kept in a dwelling house on the corner of King and Middle streets, and was burnt 
in the conflagration of 1775. The fees of the office were about il50 a year. 
Thomas Oxnard was Mr. Lyde's Deputy; Thomas Child, Weigher and Guager; 
David Wyer, Senior, Tide Surveyor, and Arthur Savage, Comptroller. They all 
abandoned the country except Child, who continued iii charge of the Collection 
district until his death in 1787. 
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218 smith's journal. 

Cusliing appointed in his room ; and John Preble as Truck-master, ui 
the room of Goldthwait. 

16. Col. Waldo died P. M. at 47 years of age. '—20. Col. Waldo 
was buried with great parade under the Church, with a sermon, and 
under arms. (His remains were afterwards removed to Boston.) 

24. We have news that the Revenue Act is repealed, except as to 
Tea ; that Lieut. Governor Hutchinson is appointed Governor and 
Mr. Flucker, Secretary. No rejoicing at the news. 

May 1. Mr. Flucker and Erving came to see me. (They had 
been here several times before.) 

14. A mast ship came in. 

June 23. Three ships sailed from hence this morning, a mast ship, 
a Deal ship, and a Scotch ship. 

July 3. Capt. Tate, in a large ship, came in. ' 

(Fasts were kept this month here, and at Scarborough, Stroudwater, 
Windham, and North- Yarmouth, on account of the drought. 

August 1. Mr. Foxcroft's Fast is to-morrow (at New-Gloucester,) 
and Mr. William's (at New-Casco) to-day. 

2. Last night came a most blessed rain ; it rained a great deal. 

September 17. We hear that the Lieut. Governor has delivered up 
the Castle to Col. Dalrymple. 

1. Col. Samuel Waldo, son of Gen. Waldo, Judge of Probate for the County. 
He lived on the north side of Middle street, nearly opposite the 2nd Parish Church, 
where Harrison place now is. He graduated at H. C. 1743, and soon after came 
to Portland. In 1753, he went to Europe for his father and procured a number of 
German emigrants to occupy the Waldo patent, whose descendants are now scat- 
tered over that territory, and particularly in the town of Waldoboro'. He married 
first, Olive Grizzell, of Boston, in 1760, second, Sarah Erving, of Boston, 1762. 
His children were Sally, born Nov. 30, 1762; Samuel, born ]\Iarch 4, 1764; John 
Erving, Aug. 28, 1765 ; Lucy, Aug. 10, 1766 ; Francis, and a posthumous son 
named Ralph, all born in Portland, but Ralph, who was born in Boston, Sep- 
tember, 1770, to which place the widow returned after the death of her husband. 
His son Samuel seUled in business here and died Oct. 18, 1798, leaving three sons, 
Samuel, Francis and William, and a daughter Sally. He lived in the house on the 
lower corner of Temple and Congress streets. 

2. This was probably a son of George Tate, who was born in England in 1700, 
and died in Falmouth, Aug. 20, 1794. He was a seaman on board the first frigate 
ever built in Russia, in the reign of Peter the Great. George was the grandfather 
of Admiral Tate, who died in the Russian service about 1827, and ancestor of all 
of the name here. 



smith's journal. 219 

30. Mrs. Tate was shot this morning, by a gun set for thieves. ' 

October 3. We hear Mr. Whitefield died at Newbury, Sabbath 
morning (Sept. 30.) 

11. The merchants and traders in Boston have agreed to rescind 
the non-importation agreement. — 12. The General Court have agreed 
to proceed on business at Cambridge. 

26. The loss Boston has sustained, rated at £150,000 and more. 

November 16. Capt. Brown came in here in a mast ship to load. 

18. An exceeding great N. E. snow storm, with a vast abundance 
of rain, and very high tides. 

20. We hear that the late snow storm was much more severe in 
Boston than here, and the greatest that ever was there. The tides 
rose two feet higher than ever was known. From the Conduit 
through the lower and Maine-streets, they sailed in boats, where the 
water was up to a man's chin. The Cellars were all full. Some 
warehouses afloat. The vessels much damaged. One schooner thrown 
on Clark's wharf. 

December 17. I prayed with Mrs. Pike on the news of the death 
of her husband. 

1771. 

January 9. Mr. Moody was ordained at Arundel. - 

February 27. A terrible and terrifying night, the last was ; a 

prodigious tempest that seemed as if it would blow down our houses ; 

the wind easterly and a great storm of rain, and then snow, and very 

cold to day, and continues snowing. 

March 25. Governor Shirley died, aged 77. 

1. The wife of Wm. Tate; he loaded a gun and tied one end of a string to the 
trigger and the other to the latch of the door of his storehouse; his wife attempting 
to open the door, received the contents of the gun and was immediately killed. He 
was indicted for the offence, pleaded guilty, and being brought up to receive 
sentence, offered the King's pardon in arrest of sentence and was discharged. 

2. Now Kennebunkport. Silas Moody was the candidate; he graduated at H. 
C. 1761, and continued in the ministry at Arundel, until his death in 1816. He 
was born in Newbury, May 9, 1742, a descendant in the fourth generation from 
William, the common ancestor of a numerous race, who came from England. He 
married Mary, daughter of Rev. Daniel Little, of Kennebunk, in 1773, by whom 
he had twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. She was also a descendant 
from Wm. Moody through Rev. Samuel Moody, of York. She survived her hus- 
band and died in 1842, aged 85. 



220 smith's^ journal. 

April 2S. (Sunday.) Preached a sermon to seafaring men. ' 

May 3. Two mast ships came in, Brown and Hinsdall. 

JiiTie aTid July. (Nothing remarkable.) 

August 1 . Sat out with my wife for Boston in Captain Pike. 

30. Returned in Capt. Holland. 

September. (Nothing remarkable.) 

October 28. We are in a great toss by the seizure of Tyng's 
schooner by a tender. 

November 13. Mr. Savage (a naval officer) was mobbed. * Collector 
Waldo came home from London. 

December 15. (Sunday.) Mr. Wiswall being sick, the Church 
people were generally with us. 

1772. 

January. (Nothing remarkable.) 

February 28. There have been many storms and gales of wind 
through the winter, and three severe snaps of cold weather as ever was. 

March 11, We have lived upon Moose several days. 

15. (Sunday.) 1 rode round through the town to meeting. 
There was a good foot path as far as Mr. Codman's ; and from a canal 
very narrow, dug through the deep snow, so that most of the people 
went through it singly in a long continued string, close upon the heels 
of one another. 

29. Sunday. I could not see any way to get to meeting, and there- 
fore did not attempt it. There is no sleighing through the Main 
street, and through the other streets the snow is up with the fences. 

April. (Nothing remarkable.) 

May 3. Sunday. A very full meeting. I had desirable assistance, 
yet cannot get over the suspicion that I am slighted. 

(Such entries in the journal of Mr. Smith, were not unfrequent. 

1. This sermon was published by request, the same year. It was printed in 
Boston, "by John Boyles, in Marlborough street," and entitled "A Practical 
Discourse to Seafaring Men." The text was from the 107th Psalm, 23d to 32nd 
verses : the discourse filled 34 small octavo pages. There was then no pruiting 
press in Maine. 

2. This was an outbreak of popular feeling, which was not sustained by the 
citizens; and three men were arrested and committed for trial. Savage was obno.v 
ious for his political principles, and after thisj relumed to Boston. 



SMITHS JOUKNAL. 221 

Prayers and sermons which he feared did not meet with acceptance, 
were often very highly approved.) 

21. There was a moose killed upon the flats. He was first started 
near my garden fence, 

June 10. A mast ship came in. 

July 3. Goodwin was tried for murder and found guilty ' — 6. Tate 
was arraigned and pleaded guilty. Goodwin was sentenced by the 
Supreme Court which sat this week. — 8. Visited and prayed with the 
prisoners. (Several other ministers this month, in turn, did the same.) 

28. Extremely hot. The thermometer at the highest. 

29. There was a prodigious tempest, with thunder and lightning 
in all the neighboring towns. 

August 8. Dr. Cooper and Mr. Bowes came to lodge with us. 
With them came Dr. Winthrop, Hancock, Brattle, Hubbard and Calf. 

12. Hancock and company sailed for Kennebec. 

September 9. The people are in a sad toss about Murray's not 
being asked to preach. " 

23. The prisoner, Goodwin, who was to have been executed to- 
morrow, has a further reprieve for five weeks. 

October 4. Sunday. Mr. Thacher preached here to the great 
discontent of the people, many of whom went to Church at Purpoo- 
dock, and all in a sad toss. ^ 

8. There is a famine of bread in town, no Indian and no flour ; 
no pork in town or country. 

28. The prisoner has been some days in a bad frame, and mad 
with every body. — 29. Goodwin, who by a second reprieve was to 
have been executed to day, is reprieved again for a fortnight. A 
compliment to Mr. Flucker, by solicitation of Wiswell and Clark. 

November 8. Sunday. The prisoner at meeting. — 12. Goodwin 
was executed. Mr. Clark preached a Lecture, and prayed at the 

1. Goodwin was charged with tlirowing a man overboard from a boat in Casco 
Bay. Many persons doubted his guilt, and he was reprieved three times. This 
was the first trial for murder in this County, and both the trial and execution Nov. 
12, attracted great crowds of people. 

2. I think this must have been John Murray, a zealous Presbyterian minister, 
from Ireland, then settled in Boothbay, afterwards in Newbury, as before men- 
tioned; a very popular preacher. 

3. Rev. Mr. Thacher, of Gorham; he c.vchanged with Mr. Deane. The cause 
of the dissatisfaction I do not learn. 



222 smith's journal. 

gallows. There was the greatest concourse of people ever seen here. 
19. I prayed with Deacon Milk, who died soon after. ' 
December. (Nothing remarkable.) 

1773. 

January 14. The measles is now spreading here. 

February. Extremely cold this winter. 

March 29. We hear of Capt. Howell's death in Holland. * 

April 13. Attended the funeral of James Milk, the Deacon's son. 

May 21. Mr. Cummings came from Scotland to live here. ^ 

1. James Milk was born in Boston in 1711, and was here previous to 1735, 
when he married Sarah Brown. He was by trade a Boat builder, and of such 
industrious habits and prudent management as to have accumulated a large estate 
for that day, and at the same time acquired a more sterling capital in the character 
of an upright man. He commanded a company of scouts in pursuit of Indians in 
1756; was Selectman of the town sixteen years and Deacon of the 1st Church more 
than twenty-one years — from 1751 to his death. He owned the two Hog islands 
in the harbor and the large tract on the east side of Exchange street from near 
Middle street to low water mark, including the flats on which Long wharf stands. 
He lived on this lot fronting the present passage on to Long wharf, in a two story 
house, afterwards occupied by his son in law, Mr. Ingraham, which was burnt in 
the destruction of the town in 1775. The children who survived him were James, 
who died the year after his father, aged 29; Mary, married to Moses Little, then 
of Compton, N. H., afterwards of Newburyport ; Dorcas, to Nathaniel Deering, 
Elizabeth to Abraham Greenleaf, of Newburyport ; Eunice, to John Deering; 
Abigail, to Joseph H. Ingraham, and Lucy, to Jolm Nichols, all of Portland. His 
wife died Sept. 7, 1769, aged 58. All his children are dead, and the name is 
extinct here, having expired with his son James; but his posterity is numerous 
through his several daughters. 3Ir. Milk married for his second wife Mrs. Deering, 
of Kittery, the mother of Nathaniel Deering, and thirteen other cliildren by her 
first husband. Two of her sous by the first marriage, viz., Nathaniel and John, 
married two of Deacon Milk's daughters, Dorcas and Eunice ; and her daughter 
Mary, married Deacon Milk's only son James. Mr. Smith preached a funeral 
discourse on occasion of the death of Deacon Milk, from the text — " Behold an 
Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile." This alone is a suflicient conmientary 
upon his character. 

2. Arthur Howell; he came here from Long Island, in New York, and lived on 
the corner of Back now Congress, and King now India, streets. Thomas Sand- 
ford administered on his estate, and married his widow. By her he had seven 
children, who are noticed under the year 1775, October. 

3. Thomas Cumming; he carried on a large business as a trader in King street; 
his house and store were burnt in the conflagration. 



smith's touenal. 223 

30. There is mucli zeal and hot talk amongst us about a new 
meeting house. ^ * * # * 

June 11. People at Boston, and the General Court are in a great 
toss about the Governor's and Lt. Governor's letters, now come to 
hand from London. * — 29. The Superior Court met. Judge Oliver, 
Hutchinson, Ropes and Cushing. 

July S. The thermometer was up to 100. 

29. We sailed for Boston in a packet, (Pike.) 

September 25. There is an epidemical vomiting and purging and 
fever among the children and others. 

October, November. (Almost every day, Mr. Smith was out, 
praying with the sick and attending funerals. Scarcely any thing 
else is mentioned in his journal for these months.) 

December. (And for the chief of this, too.) — 10. The people of 
Boston are in a great toss relating to India Tea. — 22, 26. (Mr. Smith 
here gives an account of the seizure, with an apoplexy, in the night, 
of his son John, and of his situation until the 26th, when he died.) ^ 

1774. 

January 10. My son Sanders died of a paralytic disorder. ■* 

23. Sunday. It was so cold I was but 15 minutes in sermon. 

February. (Mr. Smith, from exposing himself at ail seasons in the 
constant discharge of his ministerial duties, often caught cold. He 
closes his journal of this month as follows.) 

28. I bless God, that through the winter until now, I have escaped 
my old grievous cold, which has been so much the affliction of my life. 

March 8. We have got sixteen quarters of lamb and mutton left. 
(Mr. Smith, it appears, was always well possessed with family stores, 
either by presents, purchase, or by the fruits of his garden and pasture.) 

22. Annual Town meeting. Very full and very noisy. They 

1. This resulted in nothing, and Mr. Smith's fears probably magnified the 
danger. Mr. Deane makes no allusion to it in his diary. 

2. These are the celebrated letters of Gov. Hutchinson, procured and sent home 
by Dr. Franklin, which very much incensed the government against him. 

3. His son Dr. John Smith, died Dec. 25, aged 35. 

4. Thomas Sanders, of Gloucester, who married his daughter Lucy. He 
graduated at H. C. 1748, and was both a respectable merchant and politician. He 
had eleven children by Mr. Smith's daughter, of whom ten survived him. A par- 
ticular notice of him and his children is contained in the biographical notice of Mr. 
Smith, prefixed to this volume, page 24. 



224 smith's journal. 

quarrelled about placing the Court house. ' The officers the s:aiTic, 
Jere. Pote, Selectman and Treasurer, in the room of Capt. Jones. 

31. The robin came and tuned up. 

April 19. We hear of the death of Mr. Emerson, Dr. Cummings 
and Mrs. Fairfield. 

23. Harper came in, they say, with 4000 bushels of Corn. 

May 12. I^Iajor Freeman was chosen Representative. ^ 

14. Yesterday Gen. Gage arrived at the Castle as Governor of the 
Province. Boston is shut up by act of Parliament. The Custom 
house is removed to Marblehead, and the Commissioners to Salem. 

25. Our people moved the Town house and School house. ' 

26. At the election. Brattle and Royal were dropped, and eleven 
new Councillors were chosen ; but the Governor slaughtered the 
most of them ; among whom, were Bowdoin, Winthrop and Dexter, 
thirteen in all, 

June 1. The fatal act of Parliament took place at Boston by which 
the port is shut up. The Commissioners are gone with the Governor 
to Salem, and the Custom house office to Plymouth. 

7. The General Court is adjourned this day to meet at Salem. * 

1. It was finally placed on the corner of King and Middle streets, where the 
old meeting house and town house stood. 

2. Enoch Freeman, ftither of Samuel; his pay in this service was five shillings 
a day, which was paid by the town. 

3. The town house was moved into Hampshire street, where it was destroyed 
in the burning of the town next year. 

* The House of Representatives resolved : " That a meeting of Committees 
from the several Colonies is highly expedient and necessary, to consult upon the 
present state of the Colonies, and the miseries to which they are and might be 
reduced by the operation of certain acts of Parliament, respecting America, and to 
deliberate and determine upon proper measures to be by them recommended to all 
the Colonies, for the recovery and establishment of their just rights and liberties, 
civil and religious, and the restoration of that union and harmony between Great 
Britain and the Colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." In pursuance 
of which resolution, a Committee of five persons, (Thomas Cushing, Samuel 
Adams, Robert Treat Paine, James Bowdoin and John Adams, Esquires,) was 
appointed to meet Committees or Delegates from the other Colonies, at Phila- 
delphia, or any other place which shall be judged meet, on the first day of 
September next. On the fourth of September, Delegates from eleven States 
appeared at Philadelphia, and the next day, having formed themselves into a 
Congress, unanimously chose Payton Randolph, President, and Charles Thompson, 
Secretary. F. 



smith's journal. 225 

11. The bell tolled all day, as the harbor of Boston is shut up, 

17, The Gov^ernor dissolved the General Court. (But the mem- 
bers continued together, until, as guardians of the people, they adopted 
such measures as the exigencies of the Province required.) 

9. We had a Fast relative to the sad state of our public affairs. 

30. made an entertainment yesterday for the tories, (in 

opposition to the Fast) and and kept their shops open. ' 

July 21. I find my feet fail, and I stiffen in walking, (But his 
mental powers do not appear to have failed, nor his ministerial abili- 
ties weakened.) 

September 3. The grand Continental Congress are now meeting 
at Philadelphia. — 5. The Congress met. — 21. This morning came 
here from the eastern towiis in the county 500 men, near one half 
armed, to humble sheriff Tyng ; which having done, they went off. " 

22. Major Freeman was chosen our Representative. 

October 26. The grand Continental Congress broke up, 

November 16. Our negro man, Jack, died, 

December 25. I almost killed myself in praying at the funeral of 
Jer, Tucker ; more than 200 people there, ^ 

1. I have no means of designating the persons whose names are withdrawn 
from us; it is to be regretted that Mr. Freeman should have been so chary. The 
loyalists were quite numerous ; among them were Sheriff Tyng, the Wyers, 
Oxnards, Wiswells, Capt. Pote, Robert Pagan, Rowland Bradbury, &c. 

2. The particulars of this movement will be found in the appendix. 

3. Jeremiah Tucker died of fever Dec. 22, aged 21, son of Josiah Tucker, and 
brother of Daniel, Jonathan, &c. Josiah Tucker came from Kittery, a young 
man, and in 1752 married Mary, daughter of Mr. Thrasher, a Sail maker, who, Mr, 
Smith says, under Oct. 25, 1766, " was found dead in his loft."- By her he had 
ten children, viz., William, lost in the Dil worth privateer, durbg the Revolu- 
tionary war; Jeremiah, above mentioned; Daniel, Josiah married Sally Gushing, 
1785, died 1787; /o7ia//ia?i, married Susan Warren, daughter of Peter Warren, 
1794 — she died in February, 1849, aged 74, without children ; Dorcas, married, 
first, Daniel Bagley, second, Abijah Poole ; Mary, married Jeremiah Kimball, 
1789; Esther, married James Cory, 1789 ; Eunice, married Josiah Thrasher. 
For his second wife he married widow Berry, whose maiden name was Burdick, by 
whom he had four children, viz., Jeremiah, Samuel, David and Jane. His first 
wife died in 1772, and he died in 1782. His son Daniel, married, first, Dorcas 
Barton, 1782, second, Lydia Crabtree, 1786, was a ship master and a merchant of 
extensive business, until the revulsion of 1807 caught him with all sails set, and he 
was prostrated in the general commercial destruction of that year. He was seven 
years Selectman of the town, and several years a Representative to the General 

29 



226 smith's jot'rnai,. 

27. I prayed with the Free Masons, had uncommon assistance, 
thank Ciod. (This is a sample of many records of the same kind.) 

1775. 

January 2. There is a great scarcity of corn in this part of the 
country. 

Fehruary 3. We have the King's speech to the new Parliament, 
and the answer of both Houses.— 7. People are much joyed by the 
debates of Parliament, which they think begin to look in our favor. 

13. There are near 5000 bushels of corn brought among us. 

March 1. It is said there are now 10,000 bushels of corn lately 
brought in among us. — 16. Annual Fast recommended by Congress. 

22. Annual Town meeting. A general overturn in favor of the 
times. Capt. John Wait, Moderator; Deacon Moody, Clerk; Smith 
Cobb, Treasurer ; Major Freeman, Mussey Owen, Bracket Merrill, 
Selectmen. — 28. Mr. King, of Dunston, died. ' 

April 6. We have been flushed for some days with news from 
home, that the merchants and manufacturers and others were rising 
in our favor, and that Parliament was likely to repeal all the acts ; but 
have now news that sinks us entirely, that Parliament and administra- 
tion are violently resolute with 14 frigates, and 4 more new regiments, 
(all coming) by force to oblige us to a compliance with the laws. 

12. Capt. Coulson is very troublesome. * 

18. Gen. Gage sent 900 men by night to Concord, to destroy our 
magazine there, which were driven back, though reinforced with 1100 
more. * — 19. To day our people in many hundreds are collecting 

Court. He was an active, intelligent and influential man : he died in 1823, aged 
65. He had several sons and some beautiful daughters, one of whom married 
James D. Hopkins, Esq., of this city; another, John P. Thurston, 1803; a third, 
Jacob Cram, another, Mr. Bull; and the youngest, Mr. Brewster, of New York. 
His sons are all dead. 

1. Richard King, a respectable merchant in Scarborough, father of Rufus 
King, a distinguished Statesman in our country, and also of Cyrus and Win. King, 
the former a member of Congress several years from York County, and the latter, 
first Governor of Maine, who were all born in Scarboro'; also Mrs. Southgate, the 
wife of Dr. Robert Southgate, of Scarboro'. 

2. Thomas Coulson; he married a daughter of the elder Dr. Coffin, and was a 
rank tory. He commanded a ship in the merchant service, traduig between this 
place and Great Britain, in the lumber business. 

* On their arrival at Lexington, towards five in the morning, about seventy men 



smith's journal. 227 

from all the near towns. The people are every where in the utmost 
consternation and distress. — 20. The country is all in alarm every 
where, sending soldiers to Boston. A civil war is now commenced. 
21. Our comj)any of soldiers set out for Boston. * 
25. We sent away to Windham our principal things. Our people 
are many of them doing the same. — 28. We had about 40 men killed 

in the action of Wednesday the 19th, and the regulars about . 

29. A small man of war, the Canso, Capt. Mowat, has been here 
some time, Capt. Coulson and his ship, which makes the people all 
in a toss. — 30. We are continually disquieted, apprehensive that we 
and the whole country are inevitably and entirely ruined. We hear 

belonging to that town, were found on the parade, under arms. Maj. Pitcairn, who 
led the band, galloping up to them, called out, " disperse, disperse you rebels; 
throw down your arms and disperse." The sturdy yeomanry not instantly obeying 
the order, he advanced nearer, fired his pistol, flourished his sword, and ordered 
his soldiers to fire. A discharge of arms from the British troops, with a huzza, 
immediately succeeded ; several of the Provincials fell, and the rest dispersed. 
The firing continued after the dispersion, and the fugitives stopped and returned the 
fire. Eight Americans were killed, three or four of them by the first fire of the 
British, the others after they had left the parade; several were also wounded. 

Tlie important consequence which followed the event related in the foregoing 
note, have induced me to insert it. I would further add, that "the British 
detachment proceeded to Concord; that a party of British light infantry followed 
them, and took possession of the bridge, while the main body entered the tovra and 
proceeded to execute their commission. They disabled two 24 pounders, threw 
500 pounds of ball into the river and wells, and broke in pieces about 60 barrels of 
flour." "The militia being reinforced. Major Buttrick, of Concord, who had 
gallantly offered to command, advanced towards the bridge, but not knowing the 
transaction at Lexington, ordered the men not to give the first fii-e, that the Provin- 
cials might not be the agressors. As he advanced, the light infantry retired to the 
Concord side of the river and began to pull up the bridge, and on his nearer 
approach, they fired and killed a Captain and one of the privates; the Provincials 
returned the fire, a skirmish ensued, and the regulars were forced to retreat." F. 

1. This consisted of 60 men rank and file, under command of Capt. David 
Bradish, and composed part of Col. Phinney's regiment. It embraced many excel- 
lent citizens. Henry Sewall, afterwards Major General in the militia, and who 
died not long ago, in Augusta, at an advanced age, was 1st Corporal, Daniel 
Muzzey was 3rd Corporal, and Richard Gooding, 4th. Zachariah Nowell, Enoch 
Moody and Lemuel Gooding, who are remembered by our elderly people, were all 
privates. Bradish was an excellent officer and served through the war. He was 
Commissioned Major in Col. Bigelovv's regiment, Jan. 1, 1777. He died in 1818, 
kaving children who still reside here. 



228 smith':* jouknal. 

that Gen. Carlton, of Canada, is coming upon us with an anny, and 
that 40 or 50 Indians are certainly discovered upon the back of Roy- 
alstown, now Durham. This was soon quieted. 

May 1. We hear the Bostonians have delivered up their arms to 
the Selectmen. — 2. We have a great army of twenty thousand or 
more of our Provincials at Cambridge and Roxbury, preparing 
to attack General Gage, with the King's troops in Boston, while the 
people there are in the utmost perplexity and confusion. — 6. Boston 
is closely shut up, so that there is no going out or coming in. On 
Saturday and Monday last, about 800 or 900 were permitted to go out. 

8. Various are the accounts we daily receive from Boston, and 
iittle can be depended on, only that General Gage is daily securing 
the town, having entrenched upon Beacon Hill, Fort Hill, and Copp's 
Hill, while there is much talk of fresh forces expected. 

10. Yesterday one Col. Thompson' came here with a company of 
men from Brunswick, to take the man of war here and Coulson's ship, 
and Capt. Mowat his. 

11. Doctor and Parson Wiswell walking on the Neck, 

were taken by them and made prisoners, which made a vast tumult. 
The Gorhamites, with some from Windham, and Capt. Phinney, 
called Colonel, Hart, Williams and Steward, joined them in the night, 
and having rifled Coulson's house of all in it, they went ofT Friday. * 

13. The town has been in great distress, many women and 
children have moved out, and the most have sent their principal goods 
into the country. A dreadful day ! — 16. Parson Wiswell went ofT. 

29. Yesterday our provincials had a skirmish with the regulars at 
Chelsea, Noddle's and Hog Islands ; we killed several but lost none. 
Drove the sheep and cattle away and bvirnt a cutter. 

1. Col. Samuel Thompson, was from Topsham, a Lt. Col. in the militia, and a 
member of the Provincial Congress. His company crossed the Bay in boats, and 
encamped iu a grove of pines wliich then covered the northern and eastern slopes 
of Munjoy's hill. Their presence was not known until the opportunity occurred of 
seizing Mowat, his Surgeon, and Mr. Wiswell. Coulson's house, which was rifled, 
was on King street, and the one which had previously been owned and occupied 
by his father in law. Dr. Coflin. It was on the spot now occupied by Gen. 
Fessenden's house : that street was the most compact and fashionable in town. 
The principal business of the town was then done between Clay Cove and where 
the Portland Co's works now are. 

^ For a particular account of this, (called Thomp'son's war,") see appendix. F. 



smith's jouunaj,, 229 

June 4. Sunday. The Church people met, and Edward Oxnard 
read prayers. 

7. A man of war (the Senegal) of 14 guns, Capt. Duddington, 
came in here with two tenders. 

14. There was an alarm muster — a goodly appearance ! 

16. Two thousand more troops and 350 horses arrived this week 
at Boston, so that Gage's army now consists of more than 6000, some 
say 7 or 8000. — 17, Charlestown was burnt. 

19. Friday night last, some hundreds of our provincial army 
began to entrench on a hill in Charlestown, and on Saturday were 
attacked by more than 2000 of the regulars, under the cannon of the 
man of war, Capt. Hill, and floating batteries. Our men, so vastly 
overpowered in numbers, were obliged to retreat with the loss of 
about 50 killed, (among whom was Dr. Warren) and the regulars had 
a thousand killed, some say 1400 or near 1500, among whom are 22 
oflicers. — 21. Mr. Nash was ordained at New Boston, (now Gray. ') 

26, People are apprehensive of a famine, there being a scarcity of 
corn and flour. 

July 1 . Capt Ross came in with 3 or 400 barrels of flour. 

3. Capt. Bracket and company marched to Cambridge. ^ 

6. Mr. Deane had a lecture P. M. to Capt. Bradish and company, 
on their going to the army with a regiment from these parts. 

10. Four vessels came in, three from the West Indies and one 
from Maryland, with 1500 bushels of corn, and one before with as 
much mbre. — 13. Crosby came here in a brig with 3500 bushels of 
corn and — ^ — barrels of flour, so that we are plentifully relieved from 
all fears of a famine. Blessed be God. 

16. Sunday. A full meeting ; though so many are moved back, 
and 60 of Bradish's men who belong to us. — 20. Continental Fast. 

1. The Church at Gray was formed in August, 1774, and Samuel Nash was 
ordained the first pastor. He graduated at Brown University in 1770, in the second 
class that graduated at that College, and continued in the ministry at Gray until 
1782, when, by advice of council, he was dismissed. 

2. This Capt. Brackett, I believe, was Joshua, son of Zachariali : lie went 
into the army in 1758, during the French war. In 1744, he married Esdier, 
daughter of John Cox, the Old Ranger, as he was called, by whom he had a large 
family. He died in Westbrook in 1816, aged 93. There were three companies 
raised in Fahiiouth, Scarbomugh and Cape Elizabeth, in the beginning of the 
struggle. 



230 smith's journal. 

August 13. There is a company of soldiers here from the eastward. 

25. I went over to Purpoodock and lodged at Mr. Clark's. 

26. 1 preached there with much assistance and to much accept- 
ance. Mr. Clark gone to the army. 

September 25. Parson Clark and Mr. Lancaster dined here. 
October 15. Sunday. Mr. Deane being unwell, I preached all 
day, and administered both sacraments. 

16. A fleet of five or six vessels of war anchored at the Island with 
Mowat, a cat bomb ship, two cutter schooners and a small bomb sloop. 

17. They came up before the town, P. M. ; sent word that in 
two hours they should fire upon the town, which was respited. 

18. At nine A. M. they began and continued until dark, with 
their mortars and cannon, when with marines landing, they burnt all 
the lower part of the town and up as far as Mr. Bradbury's, excepting 
Mrs. Ross' two houses, and son Thomas' shop and stores, my house 
being included. ' * I rode to Windham just before the firing began, 
as did Mrs. Smith yesterday. A solemn time ! 

22. Sunday. I preached at Windham. — My barn being saved, 
though on fire several times, we are getting up here our hay, &c. My 
house was the last that was burnt, though several times on fire, and 
not until near dark, and kindled from Capt, Sanford's. ^ W^e lost 
(here Mr. Smith enumerates what he lost.) 

1. The excepted buildings stood on Middle street, near the passage to Clay 
Cove. The house where Mrs. Ross lived, is still standing, and was occupied by 
Col. Tyng. "Thomas' shop" stood where Stephen Waite's house is — corner of 
Middle and Franklin streets. Mr. (Theophilus) Bradbury's house, which was 
saved by great vigilance, stood on the corner of Middle and Willow streets. 

* For a particular account of this, see appencHx. F. 

2. Capt. Thomas Sandford, a ship master; he lived on the corner of King and 
Congress streets, west side of King; he rebuilt his house on the same spot, and 
lived there at the time of his death in 1811; the house is now standing. He came 
from Long Island, in New York, about 1768, administered on the estate of Capt. 
Arthur Howell, in 1773, and married his widow. They had seven children, viz., 
Mary, married James S. Dwight, Sept. 24, 1794, she died in 1844, leaving a large 
family; Sophia, married Thomas Hovey, of Portland, and died in 1832; Frances, 
married James W. Head, of Warren; Thomas G., married Maria Head, of War- 
ren, and died about 1832 ; Laura, married Thomas Cross, of Portland, and was 
living in Michigan in 1848; Delia, married Joseph Swift, of Portland, and is living 
in 1840, in Portland ; JVathaniel, died unmarried about 1825. These ladies were 
very fashionable in their day, ami with tlie Coffin's, Weeks' and Tucker's on the 



SMITH S JOURNAL. 231 

November. Mr. Smith at Windham this month, he says : 

25. I rode to Fahnoiith in order to preach, hut could get no 
lodgings, therefore returned to Mr. Codman's, (who tlien lived at 
Gorham,) near the bounds of Falmouth. 

December 3. Sunday. I preached here all day, to the soldiers and 
about 20 families.— 4. I returned to Windham, having met with 
great kindness from Mr. Ilsley and wife, and made a very welcome and 
very satisfactory visit. Gen. Frye and Preble breakfasted with me. 

(Mr. Smith preached at Windham the other Sundays in this 
month, and his son Peter once for him at Capt. Blake's, where he 
frequently used to preach himself.) 

Thus ends a very remarkable year, remarkable to all the people 
of the State, but especially to the inhabitants of Falmouth, (now 
Portland.) 

1776. 

February 10. A fatal day. ' 

same street, gave to Portland quite a reputation abroad for tlie style and character 
of its ladies. Children of Mrs. Dwight, Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Swift, are now living 
in town; a daughter of Mrs. Dwight is married to our townsman John P. Boyd, Esq. 

1. This was the death of his son Thomas, at the age of 41, without issue a 

man of honor and integrity. His wife was Lucy, daughter of Phineas Jones. In 
connection with this subject, I have found a statement by Mr. Smith which throws 
some light on the property and business of the deceased which may not be uninter- 
esting. He is consulting a person on his legal rights to the property of the deceased, 
and the reply is added. The only lawyer here from the time Mr. Parsons left, at 
the close of 1775, until Oct., 1778, when Mr. Frothingham was admitted, was Mr. 
Bradbury, afterwards Judge of the Supreme Court, and he seems to have been in 
the adverse mterest. The statement is as follows : 

" Thomas Smith died Feb. 10, 1776, intestate, leaving a widow but no child. 
About a month after, the widow, by Judge Freeman, was admitted Administratrix 
to her husband's estate, his father at the same time claiming as heir at law to the 
moiety of the personal estate, and the fee of the whole of the real, to be joined in 
the administration with the widow, but was refused by the Judge, capriciously, and 
of which he now repents. 

The widow now obtained three persons to be appointed appraisers, two of whom 
by reason of near family connection, very unfit, who appraised the shop, goods, 
stock of the farm, household furniture and apparel, at such a rate as may be con- 
ceived from one instance only : A negro man and a likely young negro woman, at 
£150 old tenor each, and for which said Thomas' father offered £700. 

The widow accordingly seized all as belonging to her, not rendering any part to 
the co-heir exceptbg a pair of young oxen prized at £60 O. T. which she charged 
to him at £70 or 75. 



2r{2 smith's journal. 

11. Sunday. Peter preached at Falmouth and I at Windham. 



Quere. Whether the nbove ought not to be divided between the co-heirs, or if 
pleaded as necessary to discharge debts, whether they ought not to be sold at 
vendue ? and what is law relating thereto ? 

The widow kept all personal and real in her own hands for a year. (How long 
a widow may claim a support) and since, more than half the real and all the 
personal. She never brought in any inventory till a year had past, and then no 
mention of the cash or monies, though there was in one bag a thousand pounds ster- 
ling in hard money, which she has not, to this day, given any account of. (How to 
come at it ?) There has been no settlement of stock or partnership, and how must 
it be done ? She now talks of claiming the dower (N. B. who are to make choice 
of the appraisers in setting off the same ?) in Anderson farm. Two bonds of jESflO 
each which said father put into Thomas' hands, and which he received, as can be 
made to appear, but not given credit for in account given in by the widow : what 
.is to be done about them ? 

Whether the widow can make new additions or charges to the accounts, as they 
stand on the deceased's books ? 

Thomas with his brother John, built shops and stores on a small lot of laud 
belonging to Thomas Sanders, with his leave, which they had in joint occupancy 
a number of years, and about a year before Thomas died, he purchased the whole 
of said John, and after said John died, made repairs of his brother's shops as 
administrator to him on behalf of their father, heir to said John. Whether the 
widow can be admitted to her third of said John's estate, the fee of the whole now 
belonging to their father ? 

Mr. Bradbury, one of the three appraisers, has not only been her counsel from 
the beginning, but has the conducting and managing of the whole, put into his hands. 

Whether the administratrix has any thing to do with, or whether there be 
administration on, real estate ? 

Whether the co-heir, as above, has not a right to see the books ? Mr. Fox, 
co-partner with Thomas, immediately after his death, opened their shop and con- 
tinued as before, to sell their goods for a month before administration was granted." 

The reply to these numerous queries is as follows : 

"There are a number of questions not determinable by the Judge of Probate, but 
in Common Law Courts, upon which I am unable to favor Mr. Smith with my mind. 

Whenever a Judge of Probate grants admmistration to one not entitled to it, an 
appeal lies to the Council. When the Judge does wrong in appointing appraisers, 
receiving their report or the like, an appeal lies in like manner. 

The administrator is chargeable with the debts of the intestate, and they have 
commonly, if they pleased, charged themselves with the personal estate as 
appraised so far as that was necessary to the payment of debts. 

If the administrator does not cause all the estate to be inventoried, or does not 
return an inventory in due time, an action lies on the bond given to the Judge. 

The settlement of copartnership stock rests with the administrator, who is 
accountable on administration bond to the heirs." 



smith's journal, 233 

12, Peter returned with the sad news of his brother (Thomas) 
being sick, wliich was confirmed by another letter in the evening. 
He was seized on Monday with a pleurisy and fever, at Cape Ann. 

14. We heard by Elwell, that he was much better on Saturday, 
but — 15. To day we heard by a letter from Mr. Winthrop, that he 
died on Saturday evening,~19. His wife and Peter sat out for Cape 
Ann. 

March 2. Our Provincials began to cannonade and bombard 
Boston.— 4. The Provincials continued last night and to night, and 
entrenched and fortified two hills on Dorchester neck. 

7. General Fast. 

20. We have the news confirmed that Howe, with the Tories, left 
Boston and fell down below the Castle. A surprising event ! 

24. The peri-pneumonic disorder, of which my son died, has 
ever since prevailed in Falmouth, and is very mortal. Westerman, 
T. Warmigum, and Dawset, have died on our Neck; Maj. Berry, 
Capt. Haskell, Bayley and Sawyer, at Back Cove ; Mr. Wyer, Mrs. 
Riggs, Ficket and Trickey, at Stroudwater ; Dunnam and Pearson, at 
Presumscot; Capt. Bucknam and wife, Underwood and Austin, and 
others, at New Casco. We hear old McLellan lately died, also 
Zachariah Sawyer and a son of Capt. Gooding and Mr. Merrill. ^ 

1. Westerman, Warmigum and Dorset were young men, respectively 30, 31 
and 33 years old; Major Berry was 70. Mr. Wyer was David, the lawyer, aged 
35. The McLellan was Bryce, who came from Ireland about 1730, was a weaver 
by trade, and lived some time m Cape Elizabeth. After he moved to the Neck, he 
lived in a house now standing on Fore street, near the foot of High street. His 
children were Joseph, William and Alexander. The two former lived in Portland, 
the latter in Cape Elizabeth, and their posterity are still among us. Joseph became 
one of our most prominent merchants, and the firm of Joseph McLellan and Son 
was well known abroad as well as at home, by their large commercial operations, 
until the embarrassments of 1807 prostrated them and the whole mercantile interests 
of the city. Joseph was born 1733, in the house on Fore street, and after his mar- 
riage, lived on Congress street, nearly opposite Casco street ; the house is still 
standing, the frame of which was brought from Gorham in 1756, in which year and 
place he married his wife, a daughter of Hugh McLellan, also from Ireland. 
William was a shipmaster, was born in 1737, and lived on Middle street next above 
Mussey's Row. Joseph's son Hugh left a large family. William's children 
were Capt. William, and two daughters married to Wm. Merrill and Royal Lincoln, 
all of this town, and all dead, but leaving issue. Joseph also left a son Joseph^ 
who died recently in Brunswick, and a daughter Eunice, married to Rev. E 
Kellogg, in 1792, who still survives. Mary married Deacon James Jewel), 
30 



234 smith's JOTIRNAf,. 

27. The troops and fleet sailed yesterday and to day from Boston, 
supposed to Halifax. 

April. (Mr. Smith continued to preach at Windham, and some- 
times his son Peter for him at Falmoutii. 

Nothing now appears in his Journal of his praying and visiting the 
sick, of which his former Journals were so full ; nor are the pages 
half so full of other matters as they were before the burning of the 
town, and his removal to Windham.) 

14. I preached all day at Windham. Peter for me. No lodging, 
eating nor horse-keeping at Falmouth. — 29. Sunday. Rode to 
Falmouth and preached. Dined at Justice Pearson's and returned to 
Windham. 

20. Mr. Bodge was seized with the epidemic sickness; it is in 
many houses here, and every where through the country, A proper 
pestilence. 

May 17. I rode to Falmouth, p. m. — 18. Continental Fast. I 
preached, a. m. Dined at Justice Pearson's. — 20. Sunday. I 
preached, a. m. Dined at Deacon Titcomb's, where I lodged. 

21. Returned to Windham. 

June 8. We rode and dined at Major Freeman's (at Saccarappa.) 
Drank tea at Mr Ross' and lodged at Mr. Codman's (at Gorham.) 

9, Rode down to Falmouth. — 10. Sunday. Put up at Mrs. Child's, 
Preached, a. m. 

(Some of these extracts may appear to be too nnimportant to be 
recorded here. They are inserted to show the employment of Mr, 
Smith's time, in his exiled state.) 

My 4. A great plot was discovered at New York, to destroy the 
magazine, the staff officers, &c. 

30, We have news of the repulse and defeat of Commodore Sir 
Peter Parker, with eight men of war, and Earl Cornwallis and Gen, 
Clinton, with their troops, in an attack on Charleston, S. C. with great 
loss to them and but little to us. 

September 16, I gave up the whole of my last year's salary to the 
parish, and accepted £76 for this year. 

1784, and another daughter married Joshua Stone. Stephen was also Joseph's 
son, and, with his brother Hugh, built the large brick houses on High street in 1801, 
which, for several years, were the great attraction of the place, and are now more 
elegant and expensive than most modern dwellings. 



smith's journal, 235 

December 4. Every fourth man is drafted for the army every 
where. 

(Mr. Smith continued at Windham all this month. There was 
one important event this year, which Mr. Smith has not noticed. 
The Declaration of Independence, July 4th.) 

1777. 

February 5. We had a public Fast. I had (as usual) great 
assistance. — 9. I am enabled to preach loud and strong. 

13. I prayed at the funeral of Mr. Enoch Moody, who died 
^suddenly on Monday evening. ' 

May 19. The town has chosen two Representatives, Brigadier 
Preble and Capt. Noice. (It appears, however, that Mr. Smith now 
lived at Falmouth, though he had not mentioned his removal from 
Windham.) 

June 2. Howe, v^^ith his army, have been for a good while cooped 
up in Brunswick by Gen. Washington and his army at Princeton, 
having had skirmishes in our favor. 

July 18. We hear Ticonderoga is taken— it was deserted by 
General St. Clair, without any fighting. 

20. Sunday. I improved the astonishing news, news which throws 
the whole country into wonder and distress. Lord help us ! 

23. Howe's army is at Staten Island. 

August 1. We hear Howe has left the Jersey's, going somewhere, 
either to Delaware or North River or Boston. 

1. Enoch Moody, as all the other Moodys here, came from Newbury, and 
sprung from Wm. Moody, the common ancestor, who came from Ipswich, England, 
and settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 1634. Enoch married Dorcas Cox in 1739, who 
died Sept. 7, 1743, aged 22, and Ann Weeks ia 1750. She was daughter of Wm. 
Weeks, and her sisters were Abigail and Esther, the wives of Benjamin Mussey 
and Stephen Woodman. Lemuel and William Weeks were her brothers. By her, 
Mr. Moody had all his children, viz., Enoch, born Nov. 18, 1751; Benjamin, Nov. 
29, 1753 ; William, Feb. 16, 1756; Nathaniel, April 8, 1758; Dorcas, Nov. 6, 
1764; Lemuel, June 30, 1767 ; Samuel, Nov. 14, 1769; Anne, March 7, 1773. 
His wife died Jan. 2, 1795, aged 62; he was 63 years old when he died. He 
built and lived in the house now standing on the corner of Congress and Franldin 
streets, which is probably the oldest house in town ; no other can be ranked with it 
but the Proctor house, near the corner of Fore and Lime streets. His son Lemuel, 
well known to us all as the keeper of the Observatory many years, died suddenly 
Aug. 11, 1846, in a fit. as did his father. 



236 smith's; journal, 

15. We hear Howe has returned from Delaware to New York- 
and intends to go up the North River to join Burgoyne, who has got 
to Saratoga. — 27. Provisions awfully scarce and dear. 

30. We live from hand to mouth. God gives us day by day, &c, 

31. Sunday. I was enabled to speak with great strength and 
spirit. 

September 1. Our prospects are now better as to the norhern army 
having had several successful victories. 

7. Sunday. Was greatly assisted. We have not had a note for 
any sick person for 9 or 10 Sabbaths. 

22. General Washington, with half his army, had an action (on 
the 11th) with the whole of Howe's, in which he lost the field and 
several hundred men, and Howe double. 

30. Our Col. Brown, &c. have got possession of Mmint Hope 
Defiance, at the French lines, at Ticonderoga. 

General Burgoyne has got into bad plight, enclosed by our army 
under General Gates, Arnold and Lincoln, near Fort Edward. 

October 22. We have much and great news of the successes of our 
Northern army that have inclosed Burgoyne's. 

25. I have not been called out to any sick person this week. 

26. Sunday. We had the news by the post, authentic, of the 
astonishing victory of Gen. Gates in taking Gen, Burgoyne's army. 
Our people were hereupon mad in their rejoicing. * 

1. This rejoicing terminated as disastrously as the one on the celebration of 
peace hereafter mentioned. Benjamin Tnkey, a young married man aged 28, was 
killed by the premature discharge of a cannon, which they were firing on the occa- 
sion, in Congress street, near Mrs. Greeley's tavern. He was loading it, when it 
exploded and carried off his arm at the shoulder, and mortally wounded him. He 
was son of John Tukey, a shipwright, who came here from ]\Ialden, about 1744, 
the first of the name who settled in town. John Tukey married Abigail Sweetser, 
by whom he had 14 children, all born here, viz: Anne, born April 17, 1749, 
married Mathew Pennell, 1778 ; John, born Nov. 12, 1751, married Rebecca 
Bangs ; Benjamin, married Hannah Stanford, 1775; Stephen, married Hannah 
Gushing; Houchin, born 17.54, married Rhoda Biaisdell, died 1787 ; Elizabeth, 
born April 26, 1760, married William Titcomb, of Falmouth; Mary, born Feb. 
26, 1762, married Elijah Littlefield, Nov. 4, 1781 ; Sarah, born April 6, 1763, 
married William Ingraham, Nov. 3, 1785; William, born Dec. 2, 1765, married 
Sarah Williams, of Gloucester, Mass.; Lemuel, born Aug. 3, 1766, married, 
first, Sarah Snow, second, her sister Eunice Snow; George, born IMarch 14, 1769, 
married Betsey Snow, Sept. 12, 1790; Lucy, born Dec, 24, 1771, married Capt 



smith's .touknal. 237 

Novemher 1. Our Falmouth-built privateer sailed. ' — 2, Sunday. 
I thought I did well, but imagined I was slighted. — 9. Sunday. 
Same. — 30. Sunday. I can't but think I am slighted. — (These sus- 
picions are revived after a long interval.) 

December 18. Continental Thanksgiving. 

1778. 

Janiuiry 5. General Washington is gone into winter quarters. 

19. The mast ship, Capt. James, sailed. 

March 27. Regimental training to enlist men to reinforce Gen. 
Washington. — 29. Sunday. Had marvellous assistance, freedom, &c. 

April 13. A French man of war came in here with a packet to 
Congress. — 19. Sunday. I preached all day ; Mr. Deane, at Bidde- 
ford. — 22. Annual Fast — was much assisted. 

25. We have great news : That Lord North is seeking an accom-. 
modation with the Colonies, by Commissioners to treat with them. 

June 17. Five of our young men have lately been inoculated and 
have got well. — 20. Our people are all mad about inoculation. They 
have built a new Pest house ; and the first class, of 41, are entered. 

Fraser Gordon; and Dorcas, born Oct. 15, 1775, married Philip Fowler; one died 
an infant. All these are dead but William, our worthy fellow citizen, and Dorcas, 
and all leaving children. Mr. Tukey, the City Marshal of Boston, is the son of 
Stephen, grandson of Benjamin, who was killed, and great grandson of the first 
John. John Tukey died March 4, 1792; his widow in 1823, aged 95. 

1. This was the ship Fox, built by John Fox, Benjamin Titcomb and others. 
She was pierced for 20 guns; but the owners could not find means or materials in 
the impoverished state of the town and vicinity to furnish her with a suitable arma- 
ment. She sailed with only four iron guns, and as a substitute for swords and 
pikes, they fitted scythes into handles. She was commanded by Capt. Joshua 
Stone, of this town ; Capt. Joseph Titcomb, son of Benjamin, was mate, and 
several of our enterprising young men entered zealously into the service. She had 
been out but eight days when she fell in with a letter of marque, of 18 guns, a 
fine ship with a valuable cargo, which they surprised and captured, and carried into 
Boston. This rich prize remunerated the owners amply for their expenditure, and 
furnished them with the necessary equipments for their ship. 

A small privateer, called the Retrieve, was fitted out here in 1776, sloop rigged 
and poorly furnished, the first that our people attempted. They procured one gun 
and a swivel from Windham. She was unsuccessful, and was soon captured and 
carried to Halifax. Capt. Stone also commanded her, and Arthur McLellan was 
an officer on board. Capt. McLellan afterwards sailed from Salem in a privateer of 
22 guns as prize master, and was very successful. 



238 smith's journal. 

22. Gen, Howe is gone, and Gen. Clinton with his army have left 
Philadelphia. — 26. The Commissioners from England are arrived 
to tieat about peace. 

July 2. Gen. Howe is gone home, and Clinton succeeds him. 

The British army have evacuated Philadelphia, and taken the route 
of the Jerseys. Washington is pursuing them ; Lee is attacking 
and Gates advancing to meet the Commissioners, and Congress are 
corresponding. Between the 2nd and the 18th, at Monmouth, our 
army battled it all day with the enemy and drove them. We had 
160 killed, and they 320, and left 60 prisoners. Many hundreds of 
Hessians deserted to us. 

31. People fear a famine. The Indian corn curls and is like to 
come to nothing, and there is no prospect of any potatoes nor turnips, 
nor any sauce at all. Lord have mercy upon us. 

22. We have had news by a hand bill of the arrival of a French 
fleet at the Hook, of 12 line of battle and 4 frigates, and that the 
people are flocking to our army. 

31. We have news of the arrival of 11 more French men-of-war 
at Sandy Hook, and they have taken 16 (out of 17) ships from Cork 
with provisions. Also, that some of the French fleet are co-operating 
with General Sullivan in an attack on New York. 

August 1. All the talk is about the expedition to Newport. The 
people are all flocking there in companies of the principal inhabitants, 
of Salem, Newbury, &c. to co-operate with the two Brigades from 
General Washington's army, and the French fleet who are at Newport. 

21. We hear that General Sullivan, with his army, are encamped 
on the heights, within half a mile of the enemy, and were to attack 
them yesterday. 

31. Our troops got off Long Island and are retiring to Providence 
as head quarters, and that the French fleet got to Boston last Friday. 

Sejjtemher 1. A British fleet under Admiral Byron, of 12 capital 
very large ships, are arrived at the Hook to reinforce Lord Howe, 
against the French fleet. 

IS. To day an express arrived from France at Piscataqua, with 
news that the French fleet had obtained a complete victory over the 
British, and that England had declared war against her. 

21. Boston is in a great toss, preparing for the British fleet and 
army expected to attack them and the French fleet. 



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30. There is a terrible dysentery that prevails and rages at the 
westward. There is not a child three years old left in Mystic. Dr. 
Elliot died of it, and Mr. Adams, of Watertown. ' 

October 20 (or thereabouts, for there is no particular date.) The 
Commissioners at New York have put out a manifesto, threatening 
the utmost horrors of war in case of our standing out against their 
proposals until the 12th of November next. Jt is thought their design 
is to destroy all our seaport towns. — We hear that the British fleet 
have fallen down to the Hook, and that 150 ships and transports have 
come up the Sound as far as New Haven, and it is thought they are 
designed for Boston : that they are preparing against them at Boston. 
Twelve hundred men are at work fortifying. 

November 3. The French fleet sailed from Boston, and all is now 
quiet as to fear from danger of the enemy's coming, 

12. To day there is as great a southerly storm of rain as has been 
known. It blew down fences, Mr. Butler's house, and other buildings. 

16. All the news is that the enemy are embarking at New York 
for the West Indies and Halifax. 

25. Common laborers have four dollars a day, while ministers 
have but a dollar, arp washerwomen as much. 

30. It is a melanpholy time upon many accounts. Lawful money 
is reduced to be worth no more than old tenor. Creditors don't 
receive an eighth part of their old debts, nor ministers of their salaries. 

December 31. The thought of people now is, that the enemy wil! 
keep Newport, New York and Long Island, this winter. 

Through the favor of Providence, we are well stored with provi- 
sions for winter. It has been a year of such remarkable health in this 
Parish, that for near the last half of it there has been but one note 
for any sick person, viz., Capt. Blake. — Mr. Chase, minister of 
Kittery, was frozen to death. * — A team with four oxen and a horse, 
and the driver, were frozen to death on Boston Neck, all standing up, 
as were several other persons. 

1. Dr. Andrew Elliott, new North Church, Boston, aged 59; Daniel Adams, 
Watertown, aged 33. 

2. Rev. Josiah Chase, first minister of Spruce Creek Parish, in Kittery, 
ordained Sept. 19, 1750. He graduated at H. C. 1738. He was about 60 years old. 

Moses Pearson died this year, June 5. He was born in Newbury, in 1697. For 
a particular notice of him and his family, see note to Dr. Deane's diary, July 1, 
1778. 



240 smith's journal. 

1779. 

JanxLary .3. Sunday. I meet with much difficulty in seeing to 
read my notes. (It is surprising that he had not occasion to make 
this observation long before.) 

Our company of soldiers is reduced to ten. 

4. It is wonderful how the people live here on the Neck, for want 
of bread, there being little to be bought, and that so monstrous dear. 

8. The people upon the Neck, universally, have for some weeks 
past suffered extremely for want of wood, there having been no 
sledding, and the carting very bad, and wood thereupon raised to 20 
dollars a cord, (but doubtless in paper money.) 

10. Sunday. It rained very hard A. M. I rode to meeting in a 
chaise and preached, but Mr. Deane not coming down, there was no 
meeting P. M. (Mr. Deane, after the town was burnt, moved to and 
lived at Gorham, near the bounds of Falmouth.) 

23. Good sledding ; wood has fallen to eight dollars. 

28. Congress have called in fifteen millions of their dollars by way 
of tax this year ; two millions is the part of our State. 

March 21, Sunday. My eyesight failed and worried me. 

27. Mr. Frothingham dined with us. ^ 

1. John Frothingham; he was a descendant in the sixth degree, from William 
Frothingham, one of the first settlers of Charlestown, Mass., and was born in that 
place in 1750, the son of Deacon John Frothingham. He graduated at H. C. in 
1771, and after keeping school a short time in Greenland, N. H., he came here for 
the same purpose in 1773 or '74, and at the same time entered the office of 
Theophilus Bradbury, as a student at Law. Theophilus Parsons was his fellow 
student, who was of the same age with himself. He was admitted to practice law 
in 1778, and united the practice for a while with school keeping. In 1780, he wa.s 
appointed County Attorney, and from this time until disabled by blindness, he filled 
some public station. He was Collector of excise for Maine; Secretary of Bowdoin 
College ; Representative to the General Court ; thirty-four years Clerk of the 
Parish; twelve years Register of Probate, and eight years Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas from the year 1804. He discharged all his offices faithfully, and 
left behind him a cha'Vacter of strict integrity. He married Martha May, of Boston, 
in 1784, and lived with her in the house now standing on the corner of Free and 
Centre streets until his death, which took place in 1826. His surviving children 
were John and Joseph, who both established themselves in Montreal, Lucretia, 
who married Franklin Tinkham, of Portland, and Abigail, married to Dr. Isaac. 
Ray, superintendent of the Insane Asylum at Providence, R. I. Joseph died a 
few years since, at Montreal. Jolui is now a respectable merchant in Montreal. 



smith's journal, 24t 

Ap'il 1. There is a grievous cry for bread ifi all the seaport 
towns, and there is but little meat and no fish yet. 

6. Parish meeting. The people voted not to make any (further) 
allow^ance to their minister's salary, so they stand £75 a year. 

7. Indian meal is sold at 30 dollars a bushel. 

13, No news from England since the 9th of Dec. What we had 
then was, that they were meditating revenge, and a terrible new 
campaign. 12,000 troops are coming. 

22. We hear that three of our Continental vessels of war, have 
taken a fleet bound from New York to Georgia with stores. 

27. I hear wood is 52 dollars a cord in Boston, and flour at £50 
per hundred, i. e. a barrel is more than my whole salary. 

May 8. Corn is now sold at 35 dollars a bushel, and coffee at 3 
dollars a pound. 

20. Tyng and his wife came here in a flag. * 

23. Had great strength ; never spoke louder nor better. 
June 1. Molasses is raised to 16 dollars, coffee 4, sugar 3. 

8. Tyng sailed at last, without Mrs. Ross, after a great toss. 

10. A man asked 74 dollars for a bushel of wheat meal. 

11. Green peas sold at Boston at 20 dollars a peck. Lamb at 20 
dollars a quarter. Board 60 dollars a week. 

17. We bought 3 pounds of halibut for a dollar. 

18. We have news of a large fleet of 800 troops in Penobscot 
Bay. — 19. We are greatly alanned by the appearance of ten topsail 
vessels, which proves to be a fleet from Boston. Frigates, &c. 

June 20. We are in a sad toss ; people are moving out. Never 
did I feel more anxiety. — 21. We have news that the commanders, 
Lincoln and Moultrie, have obtained a complete victory at Charleston, 
over the regulars. — 30. People are every where in this State spiritedly 
appearing in the present intended expedition to Penobscot, in pursuit 
of the British fleet and army there. ^ 

1. William, the former Sheriff; he probably came after his wife's mother, who 
then resided in Gorham. 

2. This was the Baggaduce expedition, as it was familiarly called, which proved 
a disastrous, if not disgraceful affair for Massachusetts, by whose direction it was 
undertaken and prosecuted. The fleet was commanded by Com. Richard Salton- 
stall, of Comiecticut, and the land forces by Gen. Solomon Lovell; Peleg Wads- 
worth, then Adjutant General of Massachusetts, was second in command. The 
people in this neighborhood, desirous of driving the enemy from our soil, engaged 

31 



242 smith's journal. 

July V'i, Two brigs and a ilozen transport sloops carne in from 
Boston, to carry our regiment of soldiers to Penobscot. — 19. The 
vessels, with their soldiers, sailed for Townsend, where the whole 
armament is to collect. — 21. The vessels of war (17) fro3n Boston, 
went by us to Penobscot. — 23. ,The enemy's fort at Stony Point 
•was taken by Gen. Wayne. Fairfiela and Norwalk burnt, and New 
Haven plundered by Tyron. — 22. Sunday. A full meeting; had 
much help; people very sleepy. (Several acceptable presents are 
mentioned this month, as well as almost every other.) 

August 10. We hear that Wheeler Kiggs was killed at Penobscot, 
and about sixty more are killed and wounded, and among them, three 
Indians, and our army waiting for mortars. ' — 17. We have news 
that the siege at Penobscot is broken up, on the arrival of several 
frigates from New York. — 18. We hear our people have burnt all 
their vessels, and are returning by land. A sad affair ! 

22. Our people are in a sad toss, expecting an attack from the 
enemy. — 23. We bought a pound of Tea at 19 dollars. 

27. Col. Jackson's regiment came here from Kittery. 

September 1. We are full of men, having not only Jackson's 
regiment, but Mitchell's also ; well defended. — 3. We were thrown 
into vast surprise by the coming in of three large ships, which proved 
to be the Boston and Dean frigates, and a prize ship. — 4. Another 
prize ship came in, both of them men of war. — 7, Col. Jackson's 
regiment went away, being sent for by Gates, upon the news of the 
arrival of the Ashburnot, and the troops at New York. — 25. The 
Penobscot soldiers, (Col. Mitchell's) were dismissed. — 26. Sunday. 
My eyes failed me. 

in it with great zeal; one regiment, under command of Col. Mitchell, of North 
Yarmouth, was raised in this section of the State, to which Falmouth and Cape 
Elizabeth contributed two companies. Peter Warren was Captain of the company 
here, Daniel Mussey, Lieutenant, John Dole, first Sergeant, and some of the most 
respectable young men enlisted as privates, as Richard Codman, Daniel Cobb, 
Hugh McLellan, William Moody, &c. Joseph McLellan, of this town, was Com- 
missary of supplies. Furtlier particulars relating to tiiis expedition may be found 
in the history of Portland, and Williamson's History of Maine, 2, 463. 

1. Wheeler Riggs was the only person killed in that expedition from this townj 
he was a carpenter, and killed while working on a battery, by a ball which glanced 
from a tree and struck him on the back. He was son of Jeremiah Riggs, and in 
1742, married Mary Cobb, by whom he had Josiah, Joseph, Daniely Mary, 
Wheeler and Abigail : he lived in Plumb street. 



smith's journal. 243 

Octohr 8. We have constantly repeated news of Count D'Estang 
being on our coast, with twenty line of battle ships and ten frigates. 

19. I prayed with the militia. — 20. Still have repeated accounts 
■of Count D'Estang. 

Noveviher 1. Mr. Bradbury moved to Newbury.' — 4. Day of 
prayer through the State. — 15. Parish meeting about salary. Voted 
to do nothing. — 22. Capt. Sanford brought me 400 dollars, gathered 
by subscription. — 29. We have news that Count D'Estang and Gen. 
Lincoln were defeated, and had retreated at Savannah. Sad news ! 

December 9. Continental Thanksgiving.— 23. Wood is $70 a 
cord ; cofTee $8 a pound. ^ 

1780. 

January 3 1. Severely cold, as perhaps ever was ; the harbor down 
to the sea lies frozen up entirely. Thus January leaves as it found 
us, dismal, cold and windy, and snow very deep. 

Fehruary 1 . Dole and others from head quarters, bring news that the 
country is blocked up with snow, and that they suffer for want of wood 
and water. — 18. No news, but great stir about the Cartel shipwreck. 

March 24. Young Mussey asks 500 i. e. above £1100 for a hat; 
laborers 30 a day. — 27. Parish meeting ; they voted a nominal sum. 

31. The street to the meeting house remains full of snow. 



1. Theophilus Bradbury; he was born in Newbury, in 1739, son of Theophilus, 
who was son of Wynioud, of York; he entered upon the practice of the law at the 
bar of this County, in May, 1762, having previously kept school here; a prelinii- 
iiary discipline through which most of our professional men were accustomed to 
pass. He was the first lawyer who established himself m this County, IMr. Wyer, 
his competitor, was not admitted until the following October. The same year he 
married Sarah, a daughter of Ephraim Jones, by whom he had the following 
children, viz., Theophilus, married Harriet Harris, and died without issue; Wil- 
liam, died at St. Domingo, unmarried ; Francis, married Hannah J. Spooner, 
Boston ; George, married Mary Kent, of Portland, in 1800, and died Nov. 27, 
1823, aged 53, leaving two children; Harriet married Thomas W. Hooper, of 
Newbury, and had issue surviving; Charles, married Eleonora Cumming, of Port- 
land, in 1800; Frances, died at Newburyport in 1801, unmarried. Charles is the 
only survivor. Mr. Bradbury lived in the house on the corner of Middle and 
Willow streets, which survived the conflagration and is still standing : it was set on 
fjre several times, but extinguished. He never returned here to live. In 1796, he 
•was chosen Representative to Congress from Essex Couiity, and in 1797, placed 
apon the bench of the Supreme Court. He died Sept. 6, 1803, aged 64. 

2. Nathaniel Webster was ordained at Biddeford, in April of this year ; he 
.^raduatod at H, C. iu 1769, and died iu Portland, March 8, 1830, aged SL 



244 smith's journal. 

April 6. Brigadier Wadsworth came here in the continental Pro- 
tector, Qapt. Williams,' — 8. A regiment of 600 men is raising; 
300 of them for this place, 200 for Camden, 100 for Machias. 

May 19. An unusual dark day. (Mr. Smith is yet able to ride 
on horseback, and to preach with strength and spirit.) 

June 10. I had the shocking tidings of the death of my daughter 
Lucy, Mrs. Forbes. * 

July 25. Brigadier Wadsworth went to Camden. — 29. The joy 
occasioned by the arrival of the French fleet is all over, by the coming 
of an English one under Graves. 

1. Peleg Wadsworth was born in Duxbury, Mass., May 6, 1748, and graduated 
at H. C. 1769. He joined the army at Roxbury as Captain of a company of minute 
men, and by his energy, courage and intelligence, rose rapidly in the service. He 
was second in command in the expedition to the Penobscot in 1779, which, it is 
said, would have resulted favorably if he had commanded the forces. The next 
year he was appointed to the command of the coast of Maine from the Piscataqua 
to the St. Croix, and established his head quarters at Camden ; where unfortunately 
being left in the winter with only a small guard, he was surprised and taken 
prisoner and carried to Castine. He effected his escape after a confinement of 
about four months, in June, 1781. In 1784, he established himself in Portland, 
and the next year erected the first brick house ever constructed in the town, which 
is still standing on Congress street, occupied by his son-in-law, Mr. Longfellow, 
who added a third story to it. Gen. Wadsworth was a very active and useful 
citizen of the town, and was soon called into public life; in 1792, he was elected a 
Senator to the Legislature of Massachusetts, and the same year was chosen to 
Congress, the first Representative of the Cumberland District, and was successively 
re-elected until 1806, when he declined a further election. In 1798, the citizens of 
Portland gave him a public dmner in approbation of his ofhcial conduct. In 1807, 
he moved to Hiram, in the County of Oxford, to occupy a large tract of land 
granted him by Government for his services, where he died in 1829, aged 81. His 
children were Charles, Elizabeth, who died unmarried, Zilpha, married to Stephen 
Longfellow, John, Lucia, George, Henry, who perished before Tripoli, bravely 
serving his country, Alexander, a distinguished commander in the Navy, Samuel 
and Peleg. His wife was Miss Bartlett, of Duxbury or Plymouth, a lady of fme 
manners and all womanly virtues, who was alike his friend and comforter in his 
hours of trial, the grace and ornament of his house m the days of his prosperity. 
She survived him several years. Of his children, Charles, Elizabeth, George and 
Henry, are dead. And since writing the above, we have to record the lamented 
deatli of his son-in-law, Mr. Longfellow, which took place August 3, 1849, in the 
74th year of his age. 

2. A notice of Mrs. Forbes, formerly Mj-s. Sanders, and her family, is 
enibrjLced in the biographical sketch of her father prefixed to this volume. 



smith's journal. 245 

September 1. News of a mob of 50,000 in London. — 24. Sir 
George Rodney, with ten line of battle ships, has arrived at New 
York, so that with Graves' and Ashburnot's, there are 19. 

October 2. The Tender act repealed lately. — 5. There is a dis- 
covery of a horrid plot of Gen. Arnold's, giving up our grand fort at 
West Point. — 10. I had nothing for dinner, and no prospect of any. 
(But here Mr. Smith mentions a full supply. I note this to observe, 
that in these calamitous times such destitutions and providential 
supplies were experienced by many.) — 25. Our new Constitution 
took place. 

November 16. A signal day of mercy ! I was never so anxious 
about wood and meal ; but was relieved marvellously. 

December 3. Sunday. I preached with much aid ; Mr. Deane not 
coming down. — 7. Continental Thanksgiving — I preached ; Mr. 
Deane, whose turn it was, not coming down. — 17. Sunday. I 
preached with much aid and attention. 

1781. 
January 12. Capt. Pearson Jones was buried. ' — 20. Wood is 
fallen from $300 to 120, i. e. a dollar and a half silver. 

February 22. Mr. Thacher was dismissed about this time. ^ — 
24. The street is brim full of snow ; we are buried up. 

March 1. We are in a woful toss by news from Capt. McCobb, 
of a scheme of an attack from Baggaduce. Two men that were in it 
say that a number of tories were to disable our cannon and secure our 
magazine, while the vessels made the attack. — 6. Our regiment 
were in arms. — 31. I have had a good measure of health through 
the winter. 

April. (Nothing remarkable but the death of three persons noted 
in the list of names at the end of this book.) ^ 

1. Pearson Jones was the son of Ephraim Jones, by Mary, the eldest daughter 
of Moses Pearson, from whom he derived his name; he was born in 1749, and in 
1771 he married Betty, a daughter of Enoch Ilsley, by whom he had several 
children, viz., Ephraim, William, and Anna, married first to Jacob Noyes, second, 
to Cotton B. Brooks, and is living in 1849. Mr. Jones' widow married Samuel 
Freeman, in 1786, by whom she had a large family. She died in 1830, full of 
years and virtues. 

2. If this was Josiah Thacher, of Gorham, he was dismissed in August, 1779. 
I know of no other of the name settled in this quarter. 

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May 3. Annual Fast ; had great assistance in prStyer, but sunk, 
and my eyes failed in sermon. 

Jjine 12. A French convoy arrived in Boston with 1500 troops. 

August 18. Wood is at $2 a cord ; never so cheap. — 22. There 
is only hard money passing, and little of that. 

September 1. We have new^s of the arrival of five ships and five 
brigs at Baggaduce, that much disquiets us. — 13. New London and 
Groton burnt by Arnold. We fear he is coming on us. — 17. I am 
relieved from a most anxious concern I have been in for four days, by 
the great news of the arrival of the French fleet at Chesapeake and 
Washington, and hope he is got there. — 24. Great expectation from 
Chesapeake, where there are 28 line of battle ships under Count de 
Grasse, with 8000 troops ; General Washington, with 8000 ; La 
Fayette with near as many. 

October 4. Capt. McLellan brought hand bills from Boston, with 
the news of the surrender of Cornwallis and his army, and a great 
victory of the French fleet under Count de Grasse over that of the 



Bradbury; these died in April, 1781. Isaac Ilsley came here from Newbury, of 
which he was a native, about 1735. He built a house at the eastern end of Baclt 
Cove, near where his grandson Henry lately lived, which he occupied, and which, 
during Indian alarms, was used as a garrison. He was himself quite famous as a 
partizan officer, and led his company frequently into the forests in pursuit of the 
Indians. He was 78 years old at the time of his death. See page 128 for his 
family. 

Capt. Gooding was 79 years old. I cannot fully determine who this was. I 
am inclined to think it was James Gooding, the celebrated ship builder, who came 
from Boston early in the settlement of the town, and lived in King street, near 
where the three story wooden house stood, afterwards occupied by his grandson, 
Major Lemuel Weeks : standing near the depot. His death has been elsewhere 
put down as having taken place in 1780; Dr. Deane puts it April 2], 1781. 

Rowland Bradbury married Elizabeth, a daughter of John Oliver, of Boston, 
and came here about 1731; he occupied a grant made to his wife's father, fronting 
the beach east of King street, where he lived until the town was burnt, and which 
is now occupied by some of his desceudants. He had a son Rowland who was a 
refugee, and living in London in 1800. His children born in Falmouth, were : 
Oliver, Oct. 25, 1732; Mary, April 5, 1734; Ann, Jan. 3, 1736; Abigail, April 9, 
1738; and Elizabeth. He was a caulker by trade, and was 75 years old at hi* 
' death. His widow died in Portland, March 6, 1798, aged 87. His daughter, 
Abigail, married Watson Crosby, who lived near him. He also had a daughter 

.Mariah, who married Wm.. Pearson in 1764, and Elizabeth, who married 

Baker, and lived on the homestead lot. 



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British under Graves and Hood. Our people are rejoicing. — 
8. Admiral Digby is arrived at New York witli three ships of the 
line, and Prince Henry on board. They have 20 ships of the line 
there. — 15. The great news of Cornwallis is premature. — 18. We 
hear the British fleet, with 7000 troops, have sailed from New York ; 
their destination unknown. Boston is in a sad toss. — 19. General 
Green has lately obtained a great victory in killing a thousand and 
more near Charleston. — 20. Mr. Bodge came in this evening with 
tidings of Mrs. Smith being dangerously ill. — 27. The post came 
express with the great news of the unconditional surrender of Corn- 
wallis and his army on the 19th. — 28. Sunday. Mr. Deane and 1 
improved the occasion in suitable sermons. — 29. Our people spent 
the day in usual rejoicings. 

Novemler 30. A tedious month, the past, as ever was, and heavy 
gales of wind from the north, constantly cold, cloudy and rainy 
weather. 

1782. 

January 29. Very blustering and cold, dismal winter. 

February 11. Harper got in from Boston, having been gone three 
months. * — 14. People are in a sad tumult about Quaker meetings, 
ministers and taxes. ^—25. St. Kitts taken ; Antigua blocked up. — 
26. The harbor down to the Islands remains shut up. — 28. We have 
the King's speech of 27th November ; nothing material in it. 

March 11. A privateer brig is off here, and has taken many 
vessels. — 16. Mr. Deane moved down here. — 20, Parish meeting ; 
voted Mr. Deane and myself, each, an £100 for last year and thissr 
with contributions.— 24. Sunday. I worried through the street, 

1. Wm. Harper ; he married Mary Wheeler in 1764, and lived fronting the 
beach, after the revolution; he was many years actively engaged in the coasting 
business. His sister Elizabeth was Enoch Ilsley's second wife. 

2. The Quakers, in 1774, had been exempted by the 1st Parish from paying 
taxes for the support of the ministry. But they made serious complaints against 
being compelled, in any manner, to contribute to the support of the war, in which 
their principles did not allow them to engage. The excitement among us was never 
so great in favor of the doctrines of the Friends as it was for the twenty years from 
1775 to 1795. The quiet, peaceful system which they recommended, found 
numerous advocates in the time of a distressing war, and during the period of 
prostration which followed. And our town was visited by many itinerant preachers 
of both sexes, who gathered crowds to listen to their then somewhat novel doctrine. 



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going and coming. Never was enabled to perform better. (Now 
eighty years old.) 

April 1. Sunday. Forgot my spectacles and could not preach ; 
but prayed and begun and closed the sacrament. — 25. Annual Fast ; 
I preached all day, — 26. The West Indies is like to be the seat of 
war till the approach of the hurricanes, and then America. — 
28, Admiral Rodney is arrived at the West Indies with 10 ships of 
the line, which, with Admiral Hood's there before, make 34 of the line, 
a 40 gun ship and frigates ; Count de Grasse has the same. 

May 6. Town meeting ; Capt. Noyes chosen Representative. — 
8. We have the great news that our independence is acknowledged 
in England, and that their troops here are recalled. — 15. We have 
news of a grand naval battle in the West Indies, — 21. We have 
certain news of an entire change in the British ministry, — 28. Capt. 
Cox is moving away to Nova Scotia. * 

Jime 4. Sir Guy Carlton is arrived at New York, in the room of 
Clinton, with an olive leaf of peace. Congress will not treat with 
him, — 25. Little news. No more land fighting, I hope. 

August 16, We hear the French fleet, of 13 line of battle ships 
and 4 frigates, and 4000 troops, lately arrived at Boston. Our pris- 
oners in England are all liberated and sent to us. — 19. Great news. 
They are negotiating a general Peace at Paris. — 25. Sunday. 
Never was I more anxious before hand, and never had greater assist- 
ance. Thank God. — September 21. Messrs. Codman and Freeman 
accepted the office of Deacons. " — 26. Our great prospects of Peace 
are vanished.~29. Sunday. My strength and voice and eyes failed 
me much. 

November 23. There has been no fighting in America this year. 

December 8. Sunday. I went out and prayed, but it was so dark 
I could not see to preach. — 15. Sunday. Most horrid cold and 

1. Jolin Cox ; he moved to Comwallis, in Nova Scotia, with a part of his 
children; others remamed here. He married Sarah, a daughter of Samuel Proctor, 
in 1739, by whom and two other wives, he had Josiah ; Mary, married James 

Means; Mercy, married Samuel Watts; Kezia, married Pine; Kerenhap- 

puck, married Peter Thomas ; Dorcas, married Jonathan Paine; Nancy, married 
Nathaniel Huston, a mariner ; Sarah, married Josiah Cox, 1765 ; John, and 
several others whose names are not known. His father was John Cox, who was 
killed at Pemaquid in 1747. See note May 1747 — page 129. 

2. Richard Codman and Samuel Freeman. 



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windy. I could not stand it, but dismissed the people, after praying 
and singing-. — 23. About this time I confined myself; f was alarmed 
with hypochondriac disorders, viz : a fluttering and sinking at my 
breast, a dismal restlessness, with profuse sweats every morning about 
4 o'clock. Broke off from meat and coffee, and took to Scotch barley 
broth. Had watchers, and was apprehensive death was fast approach- 
ing. Sent for Peter and wife, (who came and tarried near a fortnight) 
moved into the larger room, where my restlessness increased through 
the day, and had an unusual intermission in my pulse. Sent for Dr. 
Cofiin, (who thought I was dying) and for Dr. Barker. Had a nurse 
and watchers every night, and in the whole a most distressing visitation. 

1783. 

April 4. Our men about this time had a mad day of rejoicing — 
firing cannon incessantly from morning to night, among the houses, 
and ended in killing Mr, Rollins. ' — 8. We have authentic accounts, 
many ways, of Peace, though no official one from Congress. 

St Goods at Boston fell in price near half. The preliminary 
articles of Peace were certainly signed at Versailles the 20th January, 
and ratified the 3d of February. An inglorious Peace to Britain, but 
an happy one to America. — 18. The proprietors of the Neck are 
making a grand stone wall fence round it. ^ — 22. I stepped out to the 
door for the first time, having been confined to the house about four 
months. — 26. The post brought us a Proclamation from Congress, 
for a cessation of hostilities. 

May 1. Our people had a grand rejoicing day, in which they had 

1. Samuel Rollins; he lived on Main street, where Brown street enters it, and 
was a mariner. He was 40 years old, and was killed by the bursting of a cannon, 
which broke his jaw and arm ; he lingered four days. He was born m New Market, 
N. H., and married Bethiah Robbins, who came from Ipswich, but then resided 
here. He left four children, two sons and two daughters ; the eldest son, James, 
married Polly Ingersoll, of Back Cove; the eldest daughter married Capt. Thomas 
Roach, of French extraction, and formerly called La Roche, in August, 1789; the 
youngest daughter married Eben'r Cobb, -of Gorham; the youngest son died in the 
West Indies, unmarried. They are all now dead but Mrs. Roach, who resides 
with her son James, in this city. 

2. This fence was on the south-westerly division line of the Munjoy title, 
extending from Back Cove to a point near the burying ground, as may be seen on 
plan, page 72. The land was used for pasturing cattle; a gate, through which they 
entered, was placed wiiere Washington now enters Congress street. 

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a Lecture, (Mr. Brown preached,) a contribution for the poor, and 
gathered 66 dollars and two-thirds. Had a public Dinner, and IJ^ 
cannon fired several times, the whole very decently carried on. 

4. People are all damped in their extravagant rejoicings, by 
accounts now brought, that there is no Proclamation come for Peace^ 
but only for a cessation of hostilities, and that there is a violent 
opposition in Parliament against it, 

- June 6. I began to drink tar-water. — 8. Sunday. I ventured out 
and preached. Had marvellous assistance. — 14. The measles are in 
town. — 16. Dyer came with flour, and brought tlie small pox. 

17. Capt. Ingraham (in addition to several former presents,) gave 
me 1 I hundred of flour, to make up a barrel — a grand gift, and to 
Mr. Deane the same. God reward him greatly. ' — 18. Capt. Cole, 
in a ship, came in to load, as also did a large mast ship. — 31. We 
have no accounts of the Definitive Treaty of Peace being signed, nor 
of the evacuation of New York, though constantly expected. Gen, 
Washington has taken leave of the army and retired, and all is peace. 

August 13. Sunday. Had marvellous assistance. It was perfect 
pleasure in speaking. 

1. This must be Joseph H. Ingraham, who carried his benevolence through a 

long life. He came from York lu 1768, at the age of 16, and served his time with 

John Butler, in the silversmith's trade. In March, 1775, he married Abigail, a 

daughter of Deacon James Milk, who died in 1784, leaving one son, James M., 

who still survives. In 1786, he married Lydia Stone, of Brunswick, who lived but 

a short time, and in 1789, he married Ann Tate, sister of the Admiral, by whom 

he had a large family of sons and daughters. In 1777, he built the first house 

which was erected in town after the conflagration ; it excited much curiosity for 

its size, and for the rashness of its owner, who would undertake to erect a building 

in so exposed a situation and time. This was a narrow two story house, on the 

Milk property in Fore street, ftontuig the spot where Long wharf is; he had his 

silversmith's shop in one part of it. It was taken away in 1828 to make room for 

improvements. The only houses on Fore street at the time, above it, were 

Clough's, near the foot of Plumb street, Owen's, near Union street, Deacon Cotton's 

on the corner of Centre street, Pogui's, a little above, and Bryce McLellan's, near 

the foot of High street. Mr. Ingraham was a man of great enterprise and public 

spirit : he opened Market, now Lime street, from Middle to Fore street, and State 

street, and built a large portion of Commercial wharf, which formerly bore hi* 

name ; and was constantly suggesting improvements. He was many years n 

Selectman, and one of the Representatives to the General Court. His liberality 

kept pace with his public spirit. His sister was mother to Judge Preble, of thi» 

city. He died iu October, 1841, at the advanced age of 89 years. 



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September 13. We have news that the plague is in Philadelphia 
3ind New York, and that a hundred die daily. 

October 24. We have news that the Definitive Treaty was signed 
the 2d of last month. 

November 5. Mr. Jewett was ordained at Gorham. ' 

6. Mr. Hiliiard was installed (a Monday) at Cambridge. * 

1784. 

February 29. I have, through the goodness of God, been carried 
through the winter, much beyond my fears. Never was I more 
anxious in the approach thereof, and never had a more comfortable 
winter, or suffered less by the cold. 

March 5. Mr. Deane returned, having been gone six weeks. 

6. Great rejoicings in Boston, on account of the Definitive Treaty 
signed by Congress. — 16. Brigadier Preble, who died on Thursday 
night, (11th) was buried.' — 20. The measles are in town. 

1. Caleb Jewett; he came from Newburyport, graduated at Dartmouth College 
in 1776. He ceased preaching hi 1800, and died soon after. He was brother of 
Joseph and James Jewett, who afterwards settled in this town, and son of James 
Jewett, of Newbury. 

2. Timothy Hiliiard; he graduated at H. C. in 1764, was tutor there from 1768 
to 1771, and died in 1790. He was father of Timothy Hiliiard, afterwards the 
Episcopalian Clergyman in this town. 

3. Jedediah Preble and his family fill a large space in the history of Portland. 
He was born at Wells, in 1707, and came here about 1748; he was the second son 
of Benjamin, who was the son of Abraham, the first of the name who came to this 
country, and was distinguished in the early annals of our State. In a deed to 
Jedediah, dated Jan. 4, 1745, he is called of Wells, " Coaster." He begun life 
as a mariner, but by the force of enterprise and intelligence, he pushed his way to 
the highest stations in society. In 1755, he was with Gen. Winslow, in Acadia, in 
the afiiiir of the neutral French, and in 1759, he commanded a company in the 
expedition to Canada, was in the battle on the Plams of Abraham, and near Gen. 
Wolf when he fell ; he was wounded in that battle, and again during the war. 
After the death of Gen. Waldo, in 1759, and after the Canada campaign, he was 
appointed Brig. General, and entrusted with the command of Fort Pownal, at the 
mouth of Penobscot river. He was twelve years a Representative from the town-, 
a Counsellor in 1773; in 1774, he was appointed first Brig. General by the Provin- 
cial Congress, and in 1775, Major General and Commander-in-Chief of the 
Massachusetts forces, which appointment he declined on account of his age. He 
was chosen the first Senator from Cumberland, in 1780, under the new Constitution, 
and appointed Judge of the Common Pleas in 1782 ; and in 1784, he ended a life 
©f great activity, honor and usefulness, at the age of 77. He was twice married; 



252 smith's journal. 

April 10, This place fills up very fast. There lately came here 
Mr, Hopkins, Robinson, Vaughan, Clark and Codman. ' 

the first time before he came here. His second wife, to whom he was united in 
1754, was Mehitable, the widow of John Roberts, and daughter of Joshua Bangs, 
who was a woman of character and energy, and well suited to the duties which 
devolved upon lier. She survived her husband, and died at the same age in 1805. 
He lived before the war on Thames street, where his son Enoch afterwards lived : 
on the destruction of his house, he moved into a house owned by him on Middle 
street, now the Casco House, where his son the Commodore died. 

His children by his first wife were Jedediah, who married Avis Phillips, of 
Boston, and moved to the eastward, where he died; John, married Miss Frost, of 
Machias, and left one daughter, Lucy, who married John Mahar, of Washington 
County; Lucy, married Jobm Webb, of Portland, 1762; Samuel, died in tlie West 
Indies, unmarried; and William, who died at sea. By his second wife, he had 
Martha, born 1755, married Thomas Oxnard, 1768, and died October, 1824, 
leaving children; Ebenezer, born 1756, had four wives, viz., Dorcas Ilsley, Mary 
Derby, June 14, 1785, Betsey Derby and Miss Torrey; Joshua, born 1757, married 
Hannah Cross, of Newburyport, died before his mother, leaving two children; 
Edward, born 1761, married Mary Deering, March 17, 1801, died 1807, leaving 
one son, Edward D., who died February 20, 1846, leaving one son and two 
daughters; Enoch, born 1763, married Sally Cross, of Gorham, 1800, died Sept., 
1842, leaving several children; Henry, born 1767, married in France, died 1825, 
in Pittsburgh, Penn. ; Statira, born 1770, married Richard Codman, died 1796, 
leaving two sons, Richard and Edward P. 

1. These new comers were Thomas Hopkins, from Axininster, in England, 

who established himself in trade on Fore street; he afterwards built a large wooden 

block of stores and house on Middle street, near the entrance to Free street, which 

was destroyed by fire a few years since. He was father of James D. Hopkins, long 

a prominent lawyer in town, who died in 1840, aged 68; Thomas, also a lawyer, 

vk'ho died many years since, unmarried, and thn^o daughters, Mrs. Mead, of 

Bridgton, Mrs. Patten, wife of Stephen Patten, and Miss Betsey, of Portland, of 

whom the former only survives; Betsey having died the present year, 1849, aged 74. 

Thomas Robison came originally from the Orkneys, in Scotland. He carried on 

a large business at the west end of the town, where he purchased the tract of land 

extending from Main street to Fore river, and opened tlu-ough it, in 1788, the street 

now called Park, then Ann street, at the foot of which he erected his dwelling 

house, distil house, &c., and kept store in company with Edgar and Reed, in the 

house now occupied by Mrs. Jones, on the corner of Park and Main streets. The 

house was built that year, two stories high, but has been enlarged and improved 

since that day. He died in Canada in 1806. His children were Mary, Samuel, 

Hannah, married Stephen Codman, 1788, Thomas, William, Jane, married, first, 

Thomas Hodges, 1790, second, Robert Ilsley, 1803, and Eliza, married to Lemuel 

Weeks. 

William Vaughan, a merchant ; he turned his attention to speculations in real 



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12. The trade of the place surprisingly increases. Our vessels 
all come and go safely. — 24. Mr. Ilsley moved down here, as did 
Capt. Stevenson, yesterday. ' (Mr. Smith this w^eek observes, that 
he has had as happy assistance as he could wish.) 

May 23. Sunday. It was so dark I could not see to preach, and 
so only performed with prayer. 

June 23. Messrs. Hopkins, Butler, Cummings and Osgood, sailed 
for England. 

July 18. Sunday. There was preaching for the first time in Mr. 
Brown's Meeting House. " — 22. There came suddenly as great a 
tempest as ever I knew, preceded by some hideous darkness, and 
accompanied by a vast shower. 

August 1. Strangers (traders and others) crowd in among us 
surprisingly. — 11. Capt. Stone, Stephenson and Smith have great 
houses raised. ^ 

21. Mr. Edgar and family came here. ^ 

estate, and purchased nearly all Bramhall's hill, on which he built the first two 
houses, one of which, near the cemetery, is still standing. His children were 
George E., William T., Charles, Mrs. Greeley, Sarah, Mary and Olivia; the 
daughters only survive. 

Jonas Clark opened a store in Exchange street ; but in a year or two he sold out 
his stock and moved to Kennebunk, and became Judge of Probate in York 
County. He married Sarah, a daughter of Dr. Edward_Watts, of this city. 

Stephen Codman, from Boston ; he married Hannah, a daughter of Thomas 
Robison, Nov. 20, 1788, and kept a store, first on Titcomb's wharf, and then on 
King street. He returned to Boston in a few years, where he died. His oldest son, 
Edward, was born here July 26, 1790. 

1. Enoch Ilsley; he lived at Stroudwater during the war. 

Captain Jolm Stephenson ; he married Tabitha, daughter of Stephen Long- 
fellow, and lived in a house fronting the beach, before the war. The house was 
destroyed in the conflagration, and he built another on the same spot, which is still 
standing. He came from New York; he died in 1817, leaving several children, of 
whom Col. Samuel Stephenson, of Gorliam, is one. 

2. At Stroudwater. 

3. Capt. Stone's was on the corner of Middle and School streets, now owned 
by Albert Newall ; Stephenson's was on Fore street, fronting the beach ; David 
Smith's on the corner of Union and Fore streets, all still standing. This year there 
were forty-one houses and ten stores erected. 

4. Mr. Edgar formed a partnership with Thomas Robison, which was 
dissolved in June, 1786. They carried on a large business in distilling and tradnig. 



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Septeviber IS. Col. Powell died last night at North Yarmouth. ' 

October 17. Sunday. I prayed, but it was so dark I could not 
see to preach. Mr. Deane preached all day. 

December 5. Sunday. I could hardly preach at all, and fumbled 
so much I am quite discouraged. (Opposite to this date in the 
journal, Mr. Smith writes, " this was the last Sabbath I was out to 
preach." 

(1. I would observe here, that the journals for the two last years 
were written on the large size paper he formerly used, and that 
each page was as full as it could hold. 2. That I have been more 
particular in the extracts from them concerning Mr. Smith, in 
consideration of his age, and that of his life drawing to a close. It 
appears from the diary of the late Rev. Doc. Deane, that there were 
erected this year (on that part of Falmouth which is now called 
Portland,) 41 dweUing houses, 11 stores, 6 shops and 4 barns. The 
names of the owners are mentioned.) 

17S5. 

January 1. The Falmouth Gazette first appeared. (The first 
paper printed in the town, published by Thomas B. Wait. ) ^ 

1. Jeremiah Powell; was k man of great respectability and influence ; his father 
was John Powell, who came from Boston, and settled m North Yarmouth in the 
early days of that settlement ; and was also admitted an inhabitant of Falmouth. 
Jeremiah represented North Yarmouth in the General Court eleven years; was 
twelve years a member of the Provincial Council, and was elected the first 
President of the Senate of Massachusetts under the new Constitution. He was 
nineteen years Judge of the Court of Common Pleas — from 1763 to 1781. 

2. This was the first newspaper established in Maine ; its name was " The 
Falmouth GazeUe and Weekly Advertiser," and it was published weekly by 
Benjamin Titcomb and Thomas B. Wait. Mr. Titcomb afterwards became a 
Baptist preacher, and died in Brunswick in 1848. Mr. Wait moved to Boston 
about 25 years afterwards, where he died. The name of the paper was changed 
in 1786 to "The Cumberland Gazette." In 1790, Mr. Titcomb, who had sepa- 
rated from Mr. Wait tln-ee or four years before, established an opposition press and 
issued the " Gazette of Maine." In 1792, Mr. Wait enlarged iiis paper and 
changed its name to " Eastern Herald." In 1796, Jolui K. Baker, an apprentice 
of Mr. Wait's, purchased both establishments, and united the two papers under the 
name of "The Eastern Herald and Gazette of Jlaine," which lie published semi- 
weekly. The list of subscribers contained 1700 names, and the price was .'?2,50 
a year. But Baker was not destined long to have a monopoly in the business. In 
a few months after his purchase, John Rand, another apprentice of Mr. Wait's, 
established the "Oriental Trumpet," in opposition to the Herald, and in 1798, 



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March 31. Parish meeting ; voted the salaries, as the past, without 
opposition. 

April 6. The church people had a meeting, and subscribed £10 st. 
a man for a pew, in order to build a church. — 29. The post at last 
got here, having been hindered near 5 weeks. * 

Eleazer A. Jenks, still another of Mr. Wait's apprentices, set up the " Portland 
Gazette." This competition compelled Baker to suspend his se??ii-weekly paper; 
and in 1804 the weekly paper expired, having survived the Oriental Trumpet 
several years, leaving the " Portland Gazette " master of the field. This paper, 
under various proprietors, and with some changes of name, has continued to this 
day. Isaac Adams was its proprietor and editor for a longer period than any 
other ; during all its changes, it has advocated the doctrines of the federal party 
and its various successors. la 1803, the "Eastern Argus" was established by 
the democratic party, to support the admmistration of Mr. Jeflerson ; the first 
number was issued Sept. 1, and has continued to the present day, a firm adherent 
to the politics of that party. Nathaniel Willis, Jr. and Calvin Day, were its first 
publishers. Day retired after one year, and in 1808 Francis Douglass became a 
partner of Mr. Willis, who left it and went to Boston in October of that year. On 
Mr. Douglass' premature death in 1820, it fell into the hands of Thomas Todd, 
who continued the publication until December, 1833, when Charles Holden,the 
present proprietor, who had been an apprentice in the office, took charge of it. 
N. P. Willis, the poet, son of Nathaniel, was born in Portland in 1806, and was 
also an apprentice for a while in the office. Nathaniel Willis was son of Nathaniel 
of Boston, the publisher of the Independent Chronicle in that town during the 
Revolution; his grandfather and great grandfather by the name of Charles, lived 
also in Boston, and were sailmakers; Nathaniel married for his second wife the 
widow of his partner Douglass. 

1. This was an unusual occurrence. From June, 1775 to January, 1789, the 
mail was sent once a week from Boston; but it was very irregular in its time of 
arrival ; it was brought some times by the postman on foot, but generally on horse- 
back. From January to May, 1789, it was sent twice a week; after May of that 
year it came three times a week. In those days of irregularity, a gentleman of 
Portland, having business in Boston, and tired of waiting for the mail to arrive, 
started on his journey. He met the mail carrier, Joseph Barnard, in Saco woods, 
and the gentleman expressing a great desiie to have a letter which he had been 
expecting, the accommodating postman took off his saddle bags and deliberately 
opening the mail, delivered to his impatient enquirer the long expected communica- 
tion. As late as 1790, a letter was sixteen days coming from Philadelphia, 
thirteen from New York, and three from Boston ; they travelled about forty miles a 
day. Postage in 1786 was charged by pennyweights and grains ; two penny- 
weights to Portsmouth was twelve and a half cents, to Boston, a shilling, and to 
Baltimore thirty-seven and a half cents. 

The business of the office in this town at first was very small ; in the months of 



256 smith's journal. 

May 15. Sunday. 1 ventured out for the first time to meeting", 
but did not preach, 

June 5. Sunday. A delightful Sabbath ; I began with prayer, but 
could not see to preach. — 20. We are all in a blaze about singing ; 
all flocking at 5, 10 and 4 o'clock to the meeting-house, to a Master 
hired, (viz : Mr. Gage.) — 29. The people are in a sad toss, supposing 
Polly Grafton has the small pox. I prayed with her. 

July 29. The governor and lady here ; an Italian Count also. * 

August 7. Mr. Parker began to read prayers to the church people. ' 

8. Governor Hancock was to see me. 

Septeviber 27. There is now a dozen new large houses building.*' 

29. Distressing times are opening on the country ; all the money 
is gone, and therefore all business is coming to an end. 

October 3. The court-house was raised. ^ — 15. At P. M. 4 o'clock, 
a memorable dark time. — 21. For two days and two nights it rained 
without ceasing, as hard as was ever known, which raises the freshets 
in such a hideous manner as to carry away all the bridges on 

June, July and August, 1775, the letters sent from the office were but fifty-five, 
and from June 3 to October 4, 1775, the letters received at the office were, from 
New York, four; from Cambridge, fifteen; from Salem, eight, and from Philadel- 
phia, one. The first letter sent from this office to any town m Maine was June 14, 
1775, to Kennebunk; the next was to Georgetown, August 26. The first to 
Wiscasset, was January, 1788, and the first to Bath, in January, 1791. The 
increase of the business may be seen from the fact that, in 1782, the amount of 
unpaid letters received at the office for the year was ^35,87 ; in 1790, it was 
8-170,18, and in 1803, it was $2,301,17, and the same year on newspapers, 
$121,11. Samuel Freeman was the first postmaster appointed to the office here 
by the new government, and held the situation twenty-eight years ; he was 
removed in 1804, by Mr. Jefferson, and Thomas Prentiss was appointed his 
successor. In 1775 there were but two other post offices in Maine ; one in Kenne- 
bunk, the other in Georgetown. Thomas Child, brother in law of Mr. Freeman, 
was post master before the revolution. 

1. Gov. Hancock and Count Castiglioni. 

2. Parker was here as a schoolmaster, probably Frederick, a graduate of II. C. 
1784, who died in 1802. 

3. A two story wooden building, which was erected on the spot where the 
present Court house stands ; it was removed in 1816 to make room for the present 
Court house. The old building is now on Green street, used for a soap and candle 
manufactory, by Robert Hull. The exterior is without any material change. 

* Dr. Deane, in his diary, says " that the number of houses erected this year 
was thirty-three. F. 



smith's journal, 257 

Presumpscot river, and many elsewhere, and also many mills, Saco 
bridges carried away. — 28. I am daily visiting, (when I can go out) 
either alone or with Mrs. Smith. 

1786. 

January 2. There was a considerable earthquake about 7 A. M. 

4. Grand convention of delegates about a new State, who voted 
articles of grievances, and adjourned to September. ^ 

March 21. This day I am 84 years old. I continue a wonder to 
many.— 30, Parish meeting, only 13 persons present. They sent a 
committee to me about giving up my salary. 

April 14. Parish meeting, by adjournment ; having spent the whole 
day upon it, they voted a salary to both ministers. — 21. The parish, 

1. The first movement in regard to a separation of Maine from Massachusetts 
took place in February, 1785. A hint was given by an acrostic on Falmouth, 
foreshadowing, from its revival after its destruction, the Capitol of a new State, 
beginning — "From the ashes of the old, a Town appears," and concluduig, 
" Herself 's the mistress of a rising State." 

A discussion immediately commenced, which led to the call of the Convention to 
which Mr. Smith refers. The majority of the people were opposed to the measure; 
only about half of the towns in the District were represented, and but twenty dele- 
gates attended. The number chosen for tliree towns in York, viz., Fryeburg, 
Brownfield and Wells, was 10 ; from Cumberland, 12; from Lmcoln, 11. The 
delegates from Falmouth were Pel eg Wadsworth, Stephen Hall, John Waite, 
Enoch Ilsley and Samuel Freeman, who all resided on the Neck, which was not 
then incorporated into a separate town ; but the town instructed the delegates to 
oppose the separation. All the large towns were in the opposition, as York, Wells, 
Falmouth, Scarborough, and North Yarmouth; the latter town declined sending a 
delegate, but transmitted a letter m which they gave reasons for their opposition; 
one was that the charges of government would be at least four times as much as the 
present cost ; another was, " the want of a sufficient number of gentlemen of 
ability in important matters of government, which must render their councils weak, 
if not contemptible." Such modesty finds no echo at the present day. 

Wm. Gorham, of Gorham, was appointed President of the Convention, and 
Stephen Longfellow, Jr. of the same place. Clerk. But they adjourned without any 
action, to September ; and the question was discussed with more zeal than ever, in 
the papers. Judge Thacher, of Biddeford, Stephen Hall, of this town, and many 
others, entering ardently into the contest. The subject was brought before the 
legislature by the Governor, who, after much consideration before Committees, &c., 
reported unfavorably to the measure; and finally, after an agitation of several years^ 
the project was abandoned in 1789, to the great disappointment of the chief actors 
in this first efibrt. The particulars of this and subsequent movements to efiiect a 
separation, may be found in the history of Portland, part 2, 250, 
33 



258 SMITH'S JOURNAL. 

after several meetings, voted to pay my arrears, viz, S250, but took off 
6s for depreciation. — 30. Sunday. 1 was very unwell, but ventured 
out and was much assisted, 

June 28. We sat out for Windham ; my chaise overset, and 
wounded my forehead sorely, and I liked to have bled to death. 
Solemn thanks to my Great Preserver. 

July 4, Our Neck is set off, and incorporated into a town by the 
name of Portland. ' — 28. My legs continue to swell. 

August 5. The whooping cough prevails ; Mrs. Smith and I have 
had it severely. — 9. I was unwell, but forced out to pray at the first 
meeting of our new town, Portland. ^ — 27. Sunday. Deacon Freeman 
read sermons. 



1. The Neck, from the re-establishment of the town, had exercised a con) rolling 
influence in municipal aflairs ; the town meetings had always been held there, 
and it had always furnished the Representatives to the General Court, with the 
exception of four or five years ; so that when a question of a division of the town 
was proposed, in May, 1783, there was no opposition to it. The measure was, 
however, postponed at that time on account of the desolate condition of the Neck 
and the distressed circumstances of its inhabitants. The act incorporating the new 
towm was passed July 4, 1786. There was some disagreement in regard to a 
name for the new corporation. Some proposed " Casco," others strenuously 
urged " Falmouth port;" but the present name prevailed over all others, and was 
probably suggested by its connection with the ancient territory, as well as its 
agreeable sound. The earliest English name by which Bangs's Island, at the 
mouth of the harbor, was known, was Portland, and the headland opposite, in Cape 
Elizabeth, on which the Light house stands, was and is still called Portland head. 

2. Mr. Smith was now in the 85th year of his age, and the 59th of his ministry; 
he could not, therefore, well be spared on this uiteresting occasion. He was, 
undoubtedly, that often cited personage, the " oldest inhabitant." Enoch Freeman 
was chosen Moderator, and John Frothingham, Clerk, of the meeting, and the 
town was organised by the choice of Johii Fox, Nathaniel Deering and Peleg 
Wadsworth, Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, and James Lunt, Ebenezer 
Preble and Peter Warren, Assessors.* Portland is three miles in length, and ita 
average breadth is about three quarters of a mile, and it contains but about 2,200 
acres ; it is, therefore, in point of territory, the smallest town in the State, unless 
Eastport may be an exception. Its population was then about 2000, which was less 
than Falmouth, Gorham and York. It now surpasses every other town in the 
State in its population and commercial activity. 

In February, 1832, it was incorporated as a city, and the charter was accepted 
by a vote of 780 to 496. Andrew L. Emerson, who had been chairman of the 
Selectmen, was elected the first Mayor, in 1S32. 

* James Lunt came from Newbury, and married Hannah, a daughter of Joseph Nojes, ia 
1743. I haw noticed, in the course of the work, all the other persons above named, but Peter 



SMITH S JOURNAL. 259 

Septe77iber 6. The country seems to be in a general riot. 

7. Convention of delegates for a separate State. 

October 25. The whooping cougli continues, and with a dreadful 
cankerous disorder. 

November 2. The country is in extreme confusion, occasioned by 
the many county mobs, and the want of money to pay the taxes, &c. 

Becember 6. Shattuck, Smith, Parker, and others, ringleaders of 
the mobs, were taken and carried to Boston last Wednesday. (16 
dwelling houses were erected in Portland in the course of this year.) ' 

1787. 

January 17. General Lincoln is now at Springfield, with a grand 
army, to reinforce General Sheppard against the army of Insurgents 
under Shays, at Pelham. 

March 17. It is agreed we have had the longest and coldest winter 
remembered. — 21. This day I am fourscore and five years old. (And 
for 65 years before and 8 years after, he \yas a man of prayer, and a 
faithful minister of the gospel of Christ.) — 22. Fast day; I was out 
and prayed, and had great assistance. 

April 20. A great fire at Boston. It began near Liberty Pole, 
and the wind blowing hard, (northward) carried away all the buildings 
on both sides the way, 100 in all, including meeting-house, and 50 
houses. — 23. The new Episcopal church was raised. * 

Warren. Peter Warren was, by trade, a shoe-maker, as were many of our early citizens who 
rose to wealth and consequence. He came from Somersworth, N. H., before the Revolution, 
and April 16, 1775, married Thankful Bri^'gs, of this town, by whom he had one daughter, 
Susan, married to Capt. Jonathan Tucker, who died in 1848, without issue. His wife died 
Feb. 27, 1777, aged 25. Dec. 30, 1778, he married Anne, daughter of Benjamin Proctor, who 
was son of Samuel, the first settler here of the name, who lived in a one story house, back of 
the brick buildings on Fore street, between Lime and Silver streets. Mr. Warren lived there 
until he built the brick house in front of it, in 1792. He had by his second wife seven children, 
viz., Hiram, Peter, George, Thomas, Anne, Henry, and one who died young. His wife died 
Nov. 9, 1811, aged 56. His daughter Anne married Eleazer Wyer, by whom she had several 
children, and, with Thomas, are the only survivors. Hiram, Peter and Henry, were ship 
masters ; George, a merchant at Honduras, where he and Peter died. Thomas married Lucy 
Staniford, of Ipswich, and has several children. The father married a third wife, named 
Libby, by whom he also had children ; he moved to Waterford in the latter part of his life, 
where he died in 1825, aged 74. He was four years Selectman of the town, and held other 
responsible town oinces. 

1. Dr. Deane, in his diary, makes particular mention of the progress of buildings 
after the fire; we therefore defer further remark on that subject until we reach that 
part of the wori<. 

2. Tills vvas a two story wooden building, erected by subscription, on the corner 



260 smith's journal. 

May 2. Hard times ! no money ! no business, is the general cry. " 

Ju7ie 23. A great uproar about Murray's not preaching. "^ 

July 31. President Willard here. ^ 

August 16. There was a parish meeting about setting off a number 
of the parish, as a separate society. ■* — 28. Town meeting ; voted to 
pull down the meeting-house and get subscribers to build a new one. 

of Middle and Church streets. It continued to be used by the Society until 1803, 
when they occupied their brick church, just then completed, on School street. The 
old church was purchased by Daniel Ilsley, and presented to the Methodist Society 
then coming into being, and it was moved to Federal street, where it was 
occupied several years by that Society ; it was afterwards converted to the baser 
uses of this world, and became successively a Currier's and Joiner's shop, and 
finally a livery stable, for which purpose it is now (1849) used. 

1. That same cry has not ceased, and probably will not while the world stands. 
" Say not the old times are better than these; ye do not reason wisely in this 
matter." 

2. John Murray, a staunch Presbyterian from Scotland, settled first in 
Boothbay, after in Newburyport, where he died. The same complaint was made 
before, page 221. Was Mr. Smith's Congregationalism too sturdy and independent 
to admit Presbyterianism mto his pulpit, or was jealonsy of Mr. Murray's popu- 
larity the cause ? These, with other influences, were preparing the way for a 
division in the Parish. 

3. Joseph Willard, President of H. C. from 1781 to 1804. 

4. The meeting referred to in this and the next date were Parish meetings. At 
this time there was a good deal of discontent in the Parish. The burden of 
supporting two ministers was felt, and Mr. Smith was applied to to reliquish his 
salary, which he declined doing, and after much discussion, it was voted to him. 
The meeting house, too, was in a sad condition ; it had not been repaired since 
the war, and a Committee reported that it would cost £200 to put it in good 
condition. A vote actually passed to take it down, and Mr. Freeman, who first 
published these extracts, an active and influential man, made great exertions to get 
subscriptions for a new house ; but failing in this, probably from the disafl^ection m 
the Parish and the want of mterest felt in the ministers, it was concluded to repair 
the old house. The disaifected party, after repeated attempts, succeeded, on the 
12th Sept., 1787, by a vote of 29 to 13, to separate from the Old Parish, and then 
organized themselves under an act of incorporation, passed m March, 1788, into the 
2nd Parish, which has ever since existed. The separatists were bound to contribute 
to Mr. Smith's salary one quarter part of the amount voted him by the 1st Parish : 
their names were John Fox, Tliomas Sandford, Lemuel Weeks, Joseph H. Ingra- 
ham, John Curtis, Joseph McLellan, Joseph Jewett, John Bagley, James Jewett, 
Hugh McLellan, Abner Lowell, Joshua Robinson, Wm. Moody and Enoch INIoody. 

They prociued, through Mr. Murray of Newburyport, the Rev. Elijah Kellogg to 
pi'each 10 them as a candidate, who came to Portland in October, and preached 



smith's journal, 261. 

September 12. Town meeting. They voted Mr. Deane and myself 
£75 each. The separatists voted themselves off. — 23. Sunday. Mr. 
Freeman read the sermons, and I made the prayers. Had great 
assistance. — 24. Quakers' annual meeting; great numbers flocked 
there. — 27. The grand convention finished and published the new 
constitution of government for the confederated United States. 

October 3. One Kellock come here to preach to the separatists. 

4. I am abroad visiting with my wife almost every day. — 11. Poor 
Portland is plunging into ruinous confusion by the separation. 

14. Sunday. A great flocking to the separate meeting last Sunday 
and this, in the school-house. — 17. The council met at Windham 
upon Peter's case. * 

November 3. All the talk is about the new constitution of govern- 
ment, fabricated by the late federal convention. 

December 5. Mrs. Smith and inyself are sorely distressed with 
the whooping cough and rheumatism ; have tedious nights. 

26. Mr. Child was buried ; I was not out. ^ — 28. I slept well 

four Sabbaths in the North School house to crowded houses and great acceptance. 
His ardent and earnest manner, so different from the tame and quiet preaching to 
which they had been accustomed, aroused the whole community, and well nigh 
prostrated the old Society. This caused deep grief in the venerable pastor, and led 
him to think that rum was about to overwhelm the town. 

The old meeting house was, however, repaired, and continued to be used until 
1825, when it was taken down to give place to the new house : Parish charges were 
defrayed by a tax on pews, and after a short time of depression from various 
adverse causes, the Old Parish revived, resumed its wonted strength, and still 
contmues to maintain its rank and prosperity. 

1. Ilis son Peter, the minister there. The Council was called at the request of 
Mr. Smith and the Church, to settle diHicuUies existing between them. The Council 
recommended a longer contuiuance of the pastoral relation, in the hope that the 
opposition would be allayed ; but this not being the case, another Council was 
called in 1790, which advised that Mr. Smith ask a dismission, which he imme- 
diately did. 

2. Thomas Child ; he was born in Boston in 1731, and came here about 1764. 
In 1769, he was employed in the Custom House as an Inspector, with a salary of 
X30 sterling a year — and weigher and guager, for which the compensation was 3d. 
on a cask of molasses, 6d. on a cask of sugar, &c. He was the only one in tiie 
Custom House department here who adhered to the whig cause in the Revolution; 
he continued in the service of government as Naval officer until his death, by 
annual appointment of the authorities of Massachusetts- He was also Postmaster 
before the Revolution, and five years a Selectman. In 1772, he married Mary, a 



262 smith's jouknal. 

three nights, but now had a sleepless night. — 30. I walked to 
meeting pretty comfortably. 

daughter of Enoch Freeman, who was born m 1752, by whom he had Thomas, 
Mary, married to David Hale, and an unmarried daughter : they all survived him. 
His widow died in Boston in 1832. 

The successor of Mr. Child was Nathaniel Fadre Fosdick, who was born in 
Marblehead m 1760. He graduated at H. College in 1779, and came to Portland 
soon after the peace, to pursue commercial operations. In 1784, he married 
Abigail, daughter of Epliraim Jones, by whom he had one son, Benjamm, who is 
still living. As soon as Mr. Child was dead, Mr. Nathaniel Deeriug, who lived 
near, sent his son to Mr. Fosdick to inform him of the death, and to tell him to 
mount his horse and start for Boston without delay to secure the office. The hint 
was improved, and Mr. Fosdick was under way in an hour, in the midst of a snow 
storm, and at night, to accomplish the object of his pursuit. His vigilance was 
crowned with success. The next morning, other seekers, on hearing of Mr. 
Child's death, started for the same destination, but were too late to win the prize. 
Mr. Fosdick returned with his commission in his pocket. On the organization of 
the general government, he received the appointment of Collector of the Customs 
for this District, and held the office until 1801, when he was removed by Mr. 
Jefferson, and Mr. Isaac Ilsley was appointed in his place. Mr. Fosdick kept his office 
in a one story building, which stood on the spot occupied by the east end of the 
granite block, on the corner of Middle and Temple streets, and was moved in 1830 
to give place to the new building. That office was afterwards occupied by the late 
Chief Justice Parker, of Mass., and Chief Justice Mellen, of Maine, and other 
lawyers. Gen. Eustis and James Savage, Esq., of Boston, studied in it, and others 
of note. Mr. Fosdick was so displeased at his removal that he refused to give up 
this place of business, and the official blanks, to the no small embarrassment of 
Mr. Ilsley, who was not familiar with the duties of the office. Mr. Ilsley took a 
room at first in Mussey's Row; he next kept the office several years in the room 
now occupied by the Bank of Cumberland, and afterwards in the building erected 
by himself on the corner of Plumb and Fore streets, where he continued during the 
remainder of his term, which closed in 1829. 

Mr. Fosdick had two brothers in town, James and Thomas, both dead; the latter 
was his deputy. James married a daughter of Deacon Codman, by whom he had 
several children; two daughters survived, one single, the other married to Edward 
Burnham. The children of Thomas moved to Rhode Island. 

Nathaniel remained but a few years in town after his removal from office, and 
died in Salem in 1819. His widow, the last survivor of Ephraim Jones' children, 
is still living in Boston, in an ancient building in Central Place. His son Benjamin 
is also living, and Benjamin F., the son of the latter, residing in Savannah, has 
re-united two of the brandies diverging from Ephraim Jones by his marriage with 
Miss Sophia Mitchell, the great grand daughter of Mr. Jones, through his daughter 
Eunice, who married Joseph Tit';omb, whose daughter Sophia married Reuben 
Mitchell. 



smith's journal. 2G3 

(Thus ends the journal of the present year, the pages of which 
for each month are all full ; but it is the last of this description. Mr. 
Smith, it appears, continued to exercise his official duties, (except 
preaching) and to enjoy a remarkable degree of bodily health and 
mental strength.) 

1788. 

(The Journal for this year is the last that can be found. It con- 
tains only five unimportant entries in the month of January, and 
three in the month of May. Mr. Smith lived after this about seven 
years; but his eyes grew dim and his bodily strength became 
enfeebled. It could not therefore have been expected that he should 
continue to exercise an employment of this kind. Would that 
some person of equal diligence and industry, had resumed and 
continued it. On closing this part of the work, and referring you to 
what is said in the preface, the Compiler thinks it proper to observe 
that, in making the foregoing selections, he was aware of the imprac- 
ticability of suiting the taste of all. What, to one, may be considered 
unimportant, another may read with satisfaction. He therefore solicits 
your candid consideration of them, in a collective view. F. 



NAMES OF PERSONS DECEASED, WHOSE DEATHS ARE NOTICEI? 
IN THE JOURNAL.* 

1733. Capt. Larrabee, Mr. Woodward, Mr. Walton. 

1734. Mr. Adams. 

1736. Mr. Pitman, Mr. Bosworth, Daniel Kent. 

1738. Joseph Pride, Mr. x\very, Mr. Toppan, Mr. Tovvnsend. 

>, 1744. -Mr. Trickey, Father Thomes. 

1746. Increase Pote. 

1747. Old Mr. Pride, Ephraim Nason. 

1748. Justice Moody, Capt. Larrabee. 

1749. Nathan Bangs, Mr. Young. 

1750. Benjamin Svveetser, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Newman, Capt. Wheeler, 

1751. Mr. Pote, Deacon Lunt. 

1753. Mr. Dabney, Mr. Pitman, Samuel Watts. 

1754. Oliver Bradbury. 

1755. Jabez Fox, Justice Noyes. 



264 smith's journal. 

1756. Justice Frost, Deacon Westcoat, N. Harding, 

1758. Mr. Marston, Mr. Weeks, Justice Strout. 

1759. Brigadier Waldo, Mr. Minot, Mr. Svveetser. 

1761. Mr. Bramiiall, Mr. Bangs, Mr. Clough, Josiah Sawyer. 

1762. Father Gooding, Mr. Pollow. 

1763. Rev. Mr. Loring, JVorth Yarmouth. 

1764. Capt. Minot, Mr. Eaton, Jacob Stickney, Father SkilHns. 

1765. Henry Wheeler, Father Proctor, Col. Cushing, Thomas Sawyer, Mr. 

Thrasher, Mr. Hope. 

1766. Doctor Coffin, Mr. Thomes, Old Deacon Cobb. 

1767. Old Jacob Sawyer, Joseph Pollow, Deacon Cobb. 

1768. Mr. Wallis, Jabez Bradbury, Capt. Ross, Deacon Cotton. 

1769. Capt. Waile, Mr. Anderson. 

1770. Col. Waldo, Samuel Clark, Mr. Marston, Mr. Pike. 

1771. Capt. Stickney. 

1772. Mr. Holt, Old Mr. Sawyer, Solomon Gooding, Mr. Lunt, Dea. Milk, J. 

Winslow. 

1773. Capt. Howell, James Milk, Jr., Mr. Cates. 

1774. David Stickney, Jeremiah Tucker. 

1775. Capt. Robinson, Capt. Moody. 

1776. Messrs. Westerman, Dawson, Wyer, Riggs, Picket, Trickey, Buckman, 

M'Lellan, Maj. Berry, Capt. Haskell, Messrs. Bayley, Sawyer, Old 
Mr. Quimby. 

1777. Mr. Motley, Mr. Cook, Enoch Moody, Capt. Noyes. 

1778. Loring Cushing, Justice Pearson. 

1779. Wheeler Riggs. 

1780. Capt. Ingersol. 

1781. Pearson Jones, Mr. Bradley, Capts. Blasdell, Ilsley, Gooduig, Mr. Noyes. 

1782. Benj. Proctor, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Brazier, Old Mr. Berry, Mr. Marston. 

1783. Old Mr. Graves, Capt. Stephen Waite. 

1784. Brigadier Preble, Anthony Brackett, Mr. Greele, Mr. Deering. 

1785. Mr. Ayers, John Bradbury, Benjamin Haskell. 

1786. Mr. Clemens. 

1787. Levi Merrill. 



* This list is very deficlem and imperfect ; the names of females and children, and of many 
men, are omitted. W. 



STATE OF THE SEASONS, WEATHER, &c. 



1722. February 5. Moderate weather. 12. Fine weather. 28. Wet, 
stormy weather concludes the month. March 5. Fine weather again. 16. 
Charming da3\ April 9. Thunder and lightning, rain and hail. 30. Thua far 
it has been a very cold, dry spring. May 31. Fair weather concludes the month. 
July 30. The hottest day that has been this year. An exceeding dry time, as 
ever was. September 30. Very hot for the tmie of year. October 20. Very 
cold. 27. Excessive cold. December 2 — 9. Very hot indeed for the time of 
year, more so than ever was known before. 

1723. January 3. Raw, cold weather. February 1. A summer day. 
April 30. It is thought it has been the forwardest spring that has been linown in 
the country, inasmuch as the blossoms are dropt from the trees, and the 1st of the 
month, a man in Cambridge mowed a quantity of English grass. May 2. Cooler 
weather. 25. Cool weather throughout the month. October. It has been for a 
month past very stormy and uncomfortable weather as ever was known this time of 
the year. JSfbvember. This has been a very cold month ; snowed but once. 

1724. April 11. The peach trees now begin to blossom. December 14. First 
snow fell to day. 29. Considerable snow, but followed and consumed by ram. 
This month we have had something like winter weather. 

1725. Nothing till April 30. It is has been a very cold month. May 29. 
This has been a cold month, and no rain, and nothing more during the year. 

1726. January 31. This has been a very smart, close winter. February 3. 
The river froze over last night. 9. More moderate, the river breaking up. 16. 
The river froze over again. 28. This month has been severe, close weather, but 
no storm all winter, and not one thaw. March 2. More moderate. 14. The 
fish not come upon the usual ground here. April 27. People generally planting. 
This month has been wet and uncomfortable weather. 'Tis thought in these parts 
to be a very backward spring. May 20. The peach and apple trees but now 
begin to blossom. 27. There has been very little pleasant weather this month. 
June 20. There has been a very great drought this spring. September 30. This 
month has been cool, but no great frost yet. October 30. Several days past 
pretty cold. 

1727. February 10. Snowed all day. 11. A very cold day this. 16. A 
most charming pleasant day. 24. A very pleasant day. March 30. We have 
had very uncomfortable weather this month. The spring is thought to be very 
backward. (The pages of the Journal, for the rest of the year, contain nothing.) 

1728. Jan. 11. For several days past, there has been a spell of comfortable 
weather. 13. A very terrible storm of snow all day. The snow that fell to 

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266 smith's journal. 

day is almost two feet upon a level. 18. The coldest dny we liad tiiis year. 
February. There has been no thawy weather, but as close for six weeks past an 
ever was known. Great scarcity of hay on account of the drought last year. 
March 8. Till this day there has been no appearance of winter's breaking up. 
15. A wonderful smile of providence in the snow going away. The creatures 
were almost starved; a great many have died this winter, every where. April fi. 
Thus far we have had very pleasant, comfortable weather for the season. 13. As 
much rain fell to day as ever did in one day. 17. There just begins to be some 
young feed now. 30. The most of this month has been very cold. May 1 . 
Last night there was a considerable frost. June 30. Things begin to suffer much, 
by reason of the drought. July 9. Our people, this day, begin to cut their salt 
hay. JK'ovember 30. Three days past has been really cold. Presumpscot River 
froze up. December 30. Winter sets in as cold as ever remembered in December. 

(Note. The Diary for 1729, 1730, 1731, 1732, is missing.) 

1733. January 8. Cold. 13. This whole week has been a spell of warm 
weather. 25. It does not seem to be very cold, yet it was froze over to 
Purpoodock last night. February 8. Prodigious l)lustering and cold. 16. It 
thawed all last night. 22. Ice still lies as f;ir as North Yarmouth. A man may 
walk over to Hog Island. 28. It is melancholy to see so much snow as has fallen 
so late in the year. March 10. There has been but little of the snow consumed 
yet. 21. Comfortable weather. 22. Snow mostly consumed. 27. Pleasant, 
29. The snow in the woods is near four feet deep. April 4. Cloudy and cold. 
13. Pleasant day. 16. Stroudwater still froze over. 20. A cold and backward 
spring. 23. It is said to have snowed at Saccarappa last night, knee deep. 
June 29. It is a wonderful year for grass, August. Pigeons very plenty. We 
kill more than we can eat. 20. Trot, with a net, got 16 dozen this morning. 
September. Generally a pleasant month. October 24. It froze in the shade all 
day. JVovember 4. Turnips are exceedingly ])lenty. 24. Warm weather. 
December 7. Wonderfully pleasant most of this month. 

1734. January 11. Blustering and cold. 19. Rain. 28. Pretty comfortable, 
February. Pleasant weather generally this month, tho' some days cold. March. 
All along warmer and pleasanter than April last year. April 4. As hot a day as 
the generality of summer. 19. Jack finished planting potatoes. 25. There is 
vastly more potatoes planted this year than ever. May 9. Though the sprmg 
was at first very forward, things don't come on as they promised. 22. Very 
warm and pleasant. June 21. There never was (I believe) such a year for grass. 
July 4. The raspberries begin to be ripe.. 8. We hear that at Boston, people 
die of excessive heat. 23. It is (I believe) as fruitful a year as ever was, 
September 6. Extraordinary cold. 13. Pleasant. 30, We began to dig our 
potatoes, so early, because we have so many to dig. A'ovember 1. Feed is good 
yet. December. To the end of this month the weather has been very moderate. 

1735. January. Though cold at times, there has been much pleasant and 
moderate weather this month. February 2S. This has been a sunmier month; 



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only two or lliree cold days. March. Not so pleasant as the last montli. ^pril 9. 
Cold and windy. 17. Quite hot. 21. Same. July 10. People began to mow. 
August 11. There has been so much rain, it is feared there will be but little gofed 
English hay. JDecember. There have been several pleasant days this month. 
None remarkably cold. 

1736. February. A close cold winter. 28. It looks promising for a forward 
spring. March 15. Severely cold. April 10. A hot day. 11. The spring 
looks promising. 17. We dug the lower garden, and sowed carrots, parsnips, &c. 
May 29. It has been through the whole of this month, except one week, cold 
and raw. July 9. Sowed turnip seed. The fowls and chickens have destroyed 
the grasshoppers. 25. It is a wonderful year for grass. August. Cold weather 
the last of this month. September. It has been very dry all this month. 
JVovember 3. We pulled up all our turnips. Fine weather. December 30. 
Hardly any whiter yet. 

1737. January 2. 'Tis thought the ground is frozen four feet deep. 11. It 
snowed all day. 16. A level snow of about eight inches, but turned to rain. 
17. Glare of ice. IS to 22. Snow. 27. More snow. 31. Pleasant. February. 
Rains and pleasant weather alternately. March 26. It is a very backward spring 
indeed. 30. Spring like day ; the trees do hardly begin to bud. April 2. The 
gooseberry bushes look quite green. 11. Snowed all day, 18. Cloudy and cold. 
20. It looks no more like spring than it did a month ago. No plowing or gardening 
yet. 25. There is no grass at all. May 2. We sowed our peas, and lower garden. 
4. Multitude of creatures are not able to get up; many have died, 9. Warm to- 
day. 10. The whole neighborhood without milk. 17, The grass don't grow, for 
want of rain. 20. A joyful, seasonable ram. 24. Very pleasant. July 18. 
There never was, in the memory of man, more seasonable weather, 20, Grass 
is very thm, 22. No feed on the Neck, 27. Grasshoppers plenty. August 8. 
The grass seems to be, but now, shooting, 19. About this time our Almanac 
conjurer spoke of a great storm, which alarmed multitudes of people, so that some 
cut the tops of their corn ; but there was nothing lilie what was prophesied of, that 
come to pass. September. Various weather this month, but on the whole a fine 
season for the corn to dry. October W. Cold. 19, Fme weather, 23, It was never 
known to be so dry. No sawing nor grindbig, J\'ovember 5. There has been 
some rains. 24. No grindiiig; we have had a bag of corn go from mill to mill, 
for about two months, and not ground yet. December 18, It is remarkable that 
there has been no northwesters this fall nor winter. 

1738. January. The month comes in warm, like the beginning of April, 23. 
Two thuigs are remarakable, relative to the wind, for several months past; one is, 
that the wind always comes about with the sun. The other, that after fovd weather, 
the wind comes as far as the S. W. , and except once or twice, no further, February. 
The former part of the month cold. Tlie last half, fair, pleasant and moderate 
weather. March. Plenty of hay, corn, &c.; a vast difference on this account 
•Ibetween last spring and this. 27. The frost is generally out of the ground, I? 



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looks likely for a forward spring. Jlpril 11. Jack dug the lower garden, 14, 
Unusually hot weather. The spring is thought to be two or lliree days forwarder 
than the last. May. Pleasant. We finished planting potatoes to day. 15, Hot 
weather. 23. Fine, pleasant day. 29. Abundance of rain. JwZi/ 7. Grasshoppers. 
The drought come on very severely, and prevailed m such a manner as the like was 
never known. September 3. More raccoons, jays, and red squirrels than ever was 
kjiown. The weather this month generally pleasant. JVovember 5. There is, I 
think, more grass now than in the summer. 23. Cold weather. 27. Snow last 
night, but fair and moderate to-day. December. Frequent snows this month, but 
turned to rain, and the latter part of the month remarkably slippery. 

1739. April 11. No appearance of any feed yet. 20. We have remarkable 
seasonable weather. 30, There has been no ram for about a month past, except 
a small shower. August 31. We have had more hot weather these four days 
past, than all the summer together. September 17. Last night there was a very 
white frost, that killed the tops of our potatoes. October 8. The cold weather 
prevails as far as Boston, so that there is no business going forward. 

1740. January. This month has been generally fair and pleasant. Febi'uary 18. 
A summer winter. We had only two snows, and sledding but about three weeks; 
two or three snaps of cold weather, else constantly warm and open, and always 
fair, 27. Warm southerly weather. March S. A summer day, 10, Same, 18. 
Warm. 29, Charming weather, April 14. The sprmg does not look very 
promising. 23. Exceeding hot. 30, A pleasant day. May 11. A very backward, 
cold spring. June 25. We have had the finest, most seasonable weather that can 
be; every thing is promisuig. July 22, It begins to be a dry time, 28. As 
growing a season for a month past, as ever was m the memory of man. August 10. 
There has been an uncommon season of hot weather this summer, October 28. It 
began to snow, 29. Snow melted much, yet it is three inches deep. JVovember 5, 
I believe no man ever knew so winter-like a spell so early in the year, December 4. 
The frost is still wholly out of the ground. 29. The Fore River has been shut up 
a day or two. 30. Several persons walked over to Purpoodock. 

1741. January 1. A little cooler, but a pleasant day. 19. The whole week 
has been a spell of charming weather. 27. A charming pleasant day. 29. IVIiich 
cooler. 30. A great deal of the Aurora Borealis. April 10. Melancholy time, 
the snow lying, and little hay, 25, The snow has consumed wonderfully, 30, 
Jloads now settled surprisingly; the reason is, there has been no frost in the ground 
the winter past. 

1742. January, Feb. No account of the weather is given. March \\. The 
snow is four feet deep in the woods. Aprfl 18. Comfortable Sabbath. 25. 
Unusually hot. May 6. The grass grows wonderfully. 29. Same. Very hot 
weather for a week past. Nothing further is said of the weather until October IS. 
Some unusually hot days about this time, and then, nothing until December 23. 
Charming weather every day. 29. Wonderful weather for about ten days past; 
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1743. Nothing is said of the weather till March 1. Very cold. This has been 
a close winter, the snow being constantly so deep in tlie woods that the teams 
could not stir, though there was not so much near us, and in Boston there was 
hardly any. April 28. There has been no easterly weather this month, and 
though cold, yet raw and chilly as usual. The roads are every where as dry as 
summer. May 1. An uncommon dry time. 7. Refreshing rains. June 1. 
Indian corn wants heat. 20. A very dry time; people fear a drought. 22. It 
rained plentifully. 27. There are millions of worms, in armies, appearing and 
threatening to cut off every green thing; people are exceedingly alarmed. July 1. 
Days of fasting are kept in one place and another, on account of the worms. 28. 
An exceeding scarce time for hay: it is £l to j£8 a load. August 1. Fine growing 
season. October 31. Wonderful weather, moderate and dry. JVovcmbcr 7. 
There has been no rain for many weeks, so that not a mill goes in this part of the 
country. 

1744. January, Feb., March. Nothing is said of the weather or season, till 
April 29. A forward spring; a great mercy, on account of the scarcity of hay. 
No person ever saw such an April in this eastern country, so dry and warm and 
pleasant. May 1. A fine season as ever was known. 31. No person in the land 
ever saw such a spring, so hot, and intermixed with seasonable showers. We have 
ripe strawberries, and every thing more than a fortnight forwarder than usual. 
July 15. A wonderful year for grass and hay, both English and salt. August 20. 
I don't remember that pigeons were ever so plenty as now. October. I reckon 
this month has been September, and September was October. 

1745. February. A very moderate, pleasant month; but little snow or foul 
weather. March 30. This month has been like February ; a nonesuch ; 
wonderful pleasant, and like April. June. So cool a June has not been known. 
August 18. A good hay season. September 30. No frosts till a night or two ago. 
October 26. Warm and pleasant. JVovember 16. Uncomfortable weather ; deep 
snow in Boston that lies all the week ; a considerable snow here. December 27, 
Thus far moderate, and hardly like December. 31. A blustering, severe night. 
This is the first that looks like whiter. No sledding yet. 

1746. January 31. A fine, moderate winter thus far. Only two short cold 
snaps. February 24. The snow is three or four feet deep in the woods. 28. The 
snow is still as deep as at any time this winter. March 20. A severe month, 
quite unlike the last. The snow still covers all the Neck. 27. A sweet pleasant 
day. April 11. Jack dug the upper garden. 12. The spring is uncommonly for- 
ward. 18. I sowed peas, carrots, &c. 29. The most part of the week lias been 
as dry as midsummer. May 4. The creatures were let on the Neck. June 9. A 
fine growing season. 26. It comes on a very dry time. July 9. A melancholy 
drought advances. 31. There was a little rain this morning, but the ground is 
exceeding dry. August 15. It is thought the present is the greatest drought thai 
ever was in New England. 24. Plentiful showers. 29. It rains like a flood. 
September 29. It is an unusual, moderate growing season. October 5. It is like 



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the springing oftlio year; the grass lias grown surprisingly, l^leasant weather the 
latter j)art of the month. J\''oveinber 2.5. Indian corn 25s. a bushel. 30. Hay at 
Boston c£20. December 1. Very pleasant day. 15. Severely cold. 

1747. January 12. Our whole bay froze over entirely. 19. Moderate weather. 
February 28. Since the 7th, it has been pleasant, znoderate weather. March'Sl. 
There has been no high winds this month — no lion-like days; more like April. 
We had our upper garden dug. .Mpril 3. It is thought the spring is full a month 
forwarder than usual. 9. The grass grows wonderfully. 16. English beans and 
peas came up in our garden. 30. The latter part of this month has been pretty 
raw, cold and wet, and the grass no forwarder than in the beginning of this month. 
May 24. The earth has a fine gi-eeii face. June 30. Every thing is wonderfully 
flourishing. July 10. Mowed some of my hay. 20. Mowers exceeding scarce. 
Jlfem. Yellow weed must be mowed early, or it will be good for nothing. Sep- 
tember 29. There has been no fall like this, so moderate and dry; my potato tops 
look more green and flourishuig than at any time this year. October 28. This has 
been a dry fall ; no water at the mills, or grinding. December 24. The snow, 
though settled considerably, is full three feet deep. 30. This has been a very 
unpleasant month. 

1748. January. A cold, snowy month. February. A cold, snowy, uncom- 
fortable month. March 1. Comes in smiling ; the rest of the month, generally 
cold and snowy. April 1. Comes in joyfully. 8. The snow is all gone, except in 
a few drifts. 23. The earth looks beautifully green. May 15. Unusually hot, dry 
weather. 20. It is but about seven weeks since there were five and a half feet of 
snow on the ground. 31. Melancholy time ; all the talk is about the heat and 
drought — never the like. June 2. Exceeding raw and cold. 14. An epidemic cold 
prevails. 20. Dry time comes on again : there has been showers frequently, but 
no rain in the country this year. July 4. Fine showers. 10. Dying hot. It is a 
most melancholy dry time; the grass in the pastures is all burnt up. 19. A steady 
rain. August 31. Dry, dry, very dry, and very hot. September 6. Reviving 
rains. 24. A white frost. 29. Wonderful, hot summer day; the grass grows as 
fast as ever I saw it. October 2. We began to dig our potatoes ; no appearance 
of moisture in the ground. 10. The ground froze hard this morning. JVovember 
22. A moderate fail this. December. Generally pleasant. 30. Severe snow 
storm. 31. Cold, and the year ends stingingiy. 

1749. January 3. A very cold month, and the river froze over on the 3d day, 
and was so on the 19th. February. A cold month. March 11. An uncommon 
spring-like day, but most of the month very cold. 30. Snow gone. April 8. The. 
ground is fit for ploughing. 21. Planted potatoes. May 31. A melancholy di-y 
time. June 9. Same. 24. The grasshoppers do us more spoil than the diought. 
29. They have eaten up enturely an acre of potatoes. July 3. I reckon my poultry 
(about one hundred) eat ten thousand grasshoppers every day ; very hot ; the 
most remarkable lime that ever we or our fathers saw. 13. As many grasshoppers 
as ever, liut I hey are a new growth. 24. The ground begins to look green, bin 



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there are many grasshoppers yet. Augvst. I ne%'er saw the earth change its 
face so much any day as this; the whole country is renewed and revived. October 

14. Our potatoes turn out universally small. 18. Snow. JVbvcmber 22. Ooldday. 
25. Severely and unusually cold. 29. It is thought whiter never sat ui so early ; 
Presumpscot river is frozen so that a man can walk over it. {December does not 
appear to have been so severe. ) 

1750. January and February. Nothing remarkable as to the weather. March 

11. Warm, calm and pleasant for this time of the year. 18. Raw. 23. Snow, 
28. More snow. 30. Pleasant. April. Some cold and some pleasant weather. 
May 31. A wet and cold month, and yet there are millions of little grasshoppers 
not killed. June 30. There has been a happy intermixture of heat and wet for 
three weeks past. July 'and August. Nothing remarkable. September. Cold the 
latter part of the month, but the corn is like to be good. 

1751. January 6. No snow on the ground. 7. Snow storm. 12. Thaw. 

15. The frost is entirely out of the ground. 21. Weather like May. 24. This 
winter will go down memorable to posterity. February. This month has been 
more like spring than winter; moderate generally, and several days as warm as 
May. 28. Pleasant weather still. Thus winter ends, a wonder through the whole. 
March 5. Snow storm. 13. Fme spring weather the rest of the month, except the 
four last days. April. A cold blustering month. May 8. Our English cherries did 
but to-day begin to bloom. 17. They are now in all their gaiety of blooming. 
23. Growing season. 30. Never did things grow faster, nor never a better prospect. 
June 5. Very cold. 15. A wonderful time for grass, but the Indian corn wants 
heat. 26. Seasonable weather. October 4. We began to dig our potatoes. 
JKovember 16. Moderate weather. 24. Another wonder of a day, so calm, warm 
and delightful. 

1752. January I. The harbor froze over this morning; the whole bay shut up, 

12. People, since the 1st, constantly pass over to Purpoodock on the ice. 14. Went 
to Brunswick on the ice, and returned without Macqua's island, (see page 148.) 
27. Ice broke up as far as Mr. Fox's wharf, (see page 148.) February. Much 
snow; the roads blocked up, and travelling bad. May 2. Raw, cold; every thing 
is backward. 15. The trees do but now begin to blossom. 30. Raw, easterly 
weather, as it has been all the month. June 15. There is a promising prospect of 
grass, and the Indian corn starts wonderfully. July 9. Begun to mow the upper 
ground. August 12. In the evening there was dismal thunder and lightning, and 
abundance of rain, and such a hurricane as was never the like in these parts of the 
world ; it blew down houses and barns, trees, corn, and every thing in its way. 
21. There has been more thunder and lightning, and it has done more hann this 
summer all over New England, than ever was known. 31. Dry weather. Sep- 
tember SI. Dry, dry, dry; melancholy drought. 30. It rained and stormed in the 
night a great deal. October 9. A storm of rain. 30. We wonderfully fail in our 
sauce by reason of the drought. 

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weather, this season, it has, upon the wliole, been a moderate winter. March. 
The first of this month mostly cold; the last, moderate and pleasant. 31. The 
spring surpri.singly warm and forward. May 18. The first pleasant day this 
spring. June. The season is unconnnonly forward. Jlugust 2(5. The grasshopper.s 
have done much damage. October 24. The frosts have held off" wonderfully. 

1754. Januarrj and February. Generally moderate and pleasant. Marr.h 6. 
The frost seems almost out of the ground. 15. Cold, and froze hard. Jlpril 6. 
This is the 13th day of fair, dry, and therefore pleasant weather. 18. This is 
the 25th. 31. Cold, but dry. May IB. Cloudy and foggy; the grass grows sur- 
prisingly. 23. A remarkable hot day. July I. I have no grass growing in my 
mowing ground, and there is no feed on the Neck ; the reasons are, the open 
winter, three weeks early drought, and the grasshoppers. September 1. We have 
no potatoes growing this year, because of grasshoppers. 22. There is a melancholy 
drought. October 24. A great storm ; the earth is filled with water. Js'ovcmbcr 
23. Unusually moderate and pleasant all this fall. December 13. Suice the second 
day of this month, the weather has been pleasant, and the ground bare. 27. No 
sledding yet. 

1755. January. Several falls of snow, and some sledding. 21. The ground 
almost bare. 22. Moderate; it hardly freezes a night. 25. The ground bare. 
February 11. No snow this month yet. 20. Some sledding, having had two or 
three inches of snow. 30. Fine walking, and very good sledding. March 20. 
Very good sledding. 29. It snowed all day. May 8. We have done gardening. 
25. The creatures were put on the Neck. June 14. It rained abundantly. 28. 
Very hot till P. M., when there arose a severe hurricane, with rain; Capt. Bennett's 
frame was blown down. July 18. The Indian corn (by heat and alternate showers) 
grows finely. August 26. No hot weather this summer (except eight days) until 
to day. September 12. A wonderful growing season. 19. There was a frost. 
October 6. Warm. 14. Digging potatoes. 26. Cold. December 6. A true 
winter's day. 15. A fine sununer's day. 

1756. January. Moderate and pleasant month, generally. 28. The season 
seems so altered that the fish are struck in, as in May. February. Much delightful 
weather. March. Some blustering weather, but unlike March. 19. Rainy and 
warm, like May. .April \2. The robin has visited us several springs past. May 

11. Our heart cherry trees and pear plums are blossoming. 19. They are all in 
the bloom. (See page 165.) Hot and rainy. June 2. Things were never so for- 
ward; plenty of rain this month. 27. A hot Sabbath. July \2 to 15. Foggy. 
20. A fine growing season. 22. We are visited with worms, as we were thirteen 
years ago, which have destroyed whole fields of English and Indian corn in 
divers places. 30. A wet summer this ! Jlugust 10. I never saw such grass, so 
tall and thick. 26. Very hot. September 11. Extremely hot, but come on very 
cold. 24. The frost has killed the brakes and leaves of Indian corn. November 

12. Fine weather. 30. It snowed very fast. December 7. Severely cold. 10. A 
thaw. 23. A severe snow storm. 29. Fine warm weather for tliree days past. 



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175?, Jiinunry 4 C'olJ. A fall of snow three "mcheK. 14. Tt can't be better 
"sledding. 18. Tlie harbor frozen over. 81. It rained all last night. February 6 
Deep snow. (Sec page 170.) The rest of the month partly cold and blustering, 
partly ramy, and partly pleasant. March. Begins pleasant but windy. 5. The 
snow is five feet deep in the woods. 22. A severe storm of snow. 26. More 
snow. 29. Pleasant and warm. April 3. More snow. 12, Rain. 15. More 
rain. 25. Rainy. Jlf<ii/ 10 and 11. The spring is very backward. 25. Raw, cold, 
Ji.-7ie 1. A very dry lime, (see page 171.) 19. Though there has been two or three 
small showers, the drought awfully increases. 28. It rained most of last night and 
this morning. Thus in the mount God is seen, but the grain and grass are much 
cut short. August 16. We have refreshing rains, and it is now a growing season. 
30. It is constantly hot, and becomes dry again. Stptcmhcr 17. A refreshing rain, 
October. Much fine weather this month. 31. Cloudy and cold. November and 
December. Common winter months. 

1758. January 29. The snow is three feet and a half upon a level. February. 
Some pleasant weather, bnt in general a cold month. March. Alternately cold 
and pleasant. April. A cold month. 30. A very cold spring thus Hir. May. 
Generally raw and cold. 31. People are every where, but now, planting. June 
Some pleasant days, but mostly raw and cold. July. Little or really no hot 
weather this month. Very wet. August 19. Fine weather, but not hot. 31, 
Very cold all this week. September 28. The greater part of the Indian corn in 
this town is spoiled, it was planted so late; it has been such a wet summer. 
October. Mostly cold and unpleasant. November. Some pleasant, but mostly cold 
weather. December 25. The harbor froze over to the Islands. 

1759. Jamiary 20. Incomparable sleighing. 31. A severe cold winter hitherto. 
February. Some comfortable pleasant weather this month. March. Same; but 
there were snow storms the 22d and 26th. April 4. The robin visited us to-day. 
The spring birds have been hero singing several days. This month has been 
generally fair and pleasant, but cold and dry. May 11. A warm day; the first this 
spring. 16. The cherry trees arc blooming. 19. The grass is forward. 24. A 
delightful warm day ; but, 31. Cold weather. There has been but one warm, 
and one hot day, all this spring. June 5. Charming hot. 7. May storm. 14, 
Raw, cool. 25. A happy growing season. July 2. A frost. 18. A deluge of 
rain. Cherries begin to be ripe. 31. It is so wet a season we are in no haste to 
cut our grass. August. A fruitful summer, especially in pasturing and hay, 
September I. Abundance of pigeons. 18. Gale of wind that blew down the 
apples, &c. 26. Wonder of a hot day. 30. No frost yet. October 18. No 
frost yet. 22. Charming day. 30. Cold weather. JVovember. Generally moder- 
ate this month. December. Snows and cold weather, but not more than common 
for the season. 

1760. January and February. No weather unusal in winter jnonths. March 
13. Pleasant. 17. Cold and windy. 23. Snow. 30. The robin and spring birds 
came a week or ten days sooner than usual, so much forwarder is the spring than 

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common. .4/)7-i/. Several cold days 27 Severe thunder and liglilnmg May 1 
The trees shoot out their leaves. The liearl-cherry trees begin to blossom (oarliev 
than la.st year, and then earlier than usual.) 31. No hot weather this spring 
Indian corn looks poorly. June 26. There has been but 24 hours of hot weathei 
this year. July 12. Hot weather for a week pa.st. Augvst 12. Hot and peerless 
growing season. September \. Multitudes of grasshopper.^. 16. Extremely hot 
17, Extremely cold. November 8. A gay morning and a warm day. 14. Snow 
19. Exceeding cold. 23. Moderate weather. Dccanber 7. Pretty cold. 20 
Much colder. 26. Calm mornings all this week, and moderate through the days. 

1761. /ajmari/ 11. The harbor froze over yesterday and to-day. 26. A fine 
level snow, and enough of it. February. Wonder of a month. Thesnow,went 
away the 7th. J^arch. Unusually moderate weather this month. April \. The 
saason is uncommonly forward, warm and pleasant. 22. Fine weather continually. 
30. Cold. June 25. It is as melancholy dry a time as ever I saw. July 5: As 
great a drought as in 1749. 11. Gentle showers (see page 190.) 17. Plenty of 
peas. 20. Raspberries. Augiist 1. The drought awfully continues. 12. No 
feed on the neck a great while. 16. The drought increases. 19. Storm of 
rain (see page 190.) 31. Marvellous growing time; surprising change on 
the face of the earth. September 25. The earth has a most beautiful green face. 
Octobers. The grass is better set than in the spring. December 21. We never 
had such a December; it began with snowing, and the snow is two feet upon a 
level. It gives fine sledding. 

1762. February and March. (See page 192.) April 12. The robin ami 
spring birds visit us. 28. The last of the huge mountain of snow behind the 
" arrison disappeared. June 5. Melancholy dry time. All are now looking for an 
absolute famine. 23. A dark day. J«Zi/ 3. (Seepage 192.) ^w^wsf. (See page 
193. October. It is very cold a days, but no frost yet. JVoveinber. The last 1 1 
days have been moderate and comfortable. December. Several delightful day?; 
this month, 26. The fore river frozen over. 31. Winter sets in. 

1763. January 12. Incomparable sledding, 26. The harbor froze over all this 
week. 31. The harbor broke up. February 4, The harbor is frozen over. 12 
Same. 26. Same. 28. Thus ends February, as it did last year, a severe winter 
as any we have had, (seepage 195.) JUarch. A cold, blustering month. 28. It 
has been a cold, tedious whiter, (see page 196.) April 15. There has been no rain 
this spring. The snow goes away kindly. 12. The robin and spring birds begin 
to tune up. 18. (See page 196.) 30. The roads and ground as dry as summer. 
May, to 18. Fine weather. 20. Cold, which prevents the cherry trees from 
blossoming. 24. The freshets are raised higher than ever Icnown. 27. Warm 
weather is much wanted, (see page 196.) July 1. There is no summer yet. 14. 
Not a hot night this summer; indeed, no hot weather at all, but constantly wet. 21. 
Cold N. E. storm. There has not been for two months past, 48 hours of fair 
weather at one lime. August 9. The weather continues foggy and wet. 26. Fair 
weather since this day ssn'ight; a great favor and rarity. September 10. A frost 



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last night. 18. A plenty of rain, after a fortnight of dry seasonable weather, 28. 
Wc began to dig our potatoes. JSTovember 10. A long storm. 14. Very cold. 18. 
A great N. E. snow storm. 26. There has been the week past a spell of moderate, 
pleasant weather. December 2. Moderate weather. 8. Raw. 13. Pleasant. 
18. Blustering. 

1764. January 11. Harbor froze over. 26. There fell just as much snow as 
was wanted and desired. Much business d«ne this month. February. Generally 
moderate weather this month. March 12. Cold and windy. 15. Warm. 25. 
Uncomfortable. 28. Charming pleasant. £pril 14. The spring is marvellously 
forward. 26. Pleasant day. May. Generally a pleasant month. 25. The cherry 
trees are in full bloom. June 14. The earth is sutliciently soaked. 18. It has a 
most beautiful green face. 30. The fruits of it are promising. Jlugust 18. A very 
dry time seems to be coming on. 31. A very dry time indeed. September 7. 
There has been a great deal of very cold weather. 18. Cold still. 19. A hot day. 
26. Very cold. 30. Delightful Sabbath. October 3. Fine weather. 13. Pleas- 
ant. 22. Very warm. 24. Cold and windy. 26. A great storm, wind S. E. 
November 1. Pleasant. 5. Dry travelling. 16. Very cold. 27. A fine day. 
December 17. About 15 inches of snow upon the ground. 27. There is between 
2 and 3 feet. 31. It has thus far been a severe winter; nothing like it since 1747 
and 1748, then it was more so. 

1765. January. The bay is skimmed over. 14. Pleasant. 22. The heart of 
the winter seems broken : incomparable sledding. 23. A charming day. 26. 
Very cold. 31. A great storm. February 5. Tempestuous and cold. 12. The ice 
lies over the harbor still. 14. A thaw. 18. Fine, warm weather. 25. There has 
been no snow all this month. March 2. Winter returns upon us. 13. A charm- 
ing day. 22. Raw; cold. 24. Dismal snow storm. 31. Hot and pleasant, 
though it has been raw and cold for some time past. Jlpril 9. The robin this 
morning first made his appearance. 10. The spring bird, with the robin, gave us a 
serenade. 11. The wind blew fresh and cold. 19. Warm, 22. Raw; cold. 30. 
The dry time continues and increases. May 1. Plentiful rain. 12. The spring is 
uncommonly forward. 14. The cherry blows. 25. Cold for 9 days past. 27. An 
extremely hot day. 29. A growing season. Jtme. A growing season. 30. A 
great prospect of rain and grass, though the Indian corn very much wants heat. 
July. Alternately warm and cold. Jlugust. The pastures arc dried up. Sep- 
tember 2. Plentiful rams : the earth has a new face. 15. Very cold. 24. A 
delightful day. December 16. Snow. 31. Last night was as cold as (perhaps) it 
ever was, in this country, and continues so. 

1766. January 6. The harbor remains shut up. 9. Fine weather. 17. Se- 
verely cold. 21. Rain. 30. Incomparably pleasant. Fc&jwary 4. Fine sledding 
9. This ia the 14th day since there has been any falhug weather. 19. Pleasant 
da^'. 26. Fair and pleasant 28. Very cold. Jlpril. Generally pleasant. 27 
The spring comes on finely, May 5. A long .spell of raw, cold weather. 16. Our 
' hciry tvcci begin to blossom 26. They arc ui full blow. 31 The spring is 



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uncommonly forward, Uic Indian <orii, in many places, lias come up. June 14 
An imcommon growing season. July ao. Rain every day ; never such a season , 
yet tlie old grass grounds have but poor burdens, owing to the last winter's frost, 
which killed the grass. Jiugust 18. Such a growing season through the whole sum 
mer never was known. September I. Cabbages are beginning to head. 10. Mi- 
chaelmas storms. 30. The earth has a most beautiful face ; the English grass is 
now set, and grows more than at any time this year, and there has been no frost 
yet. October. Pleasant weather most of the month. 31. A surprising warm sum- 
mer's day. JVowcTnfter 1 , 2. Two other such days. 9,13. Cold. 14. Moderate 
again. 17. A great storm of snow. 29. Geese and chickens plenty at 2s. a 
pound, turkeys 2s. 6d. Cold weather. December 5. Butter 5a. a pound. A 
moderate month for December. 

1767. January 6. A deluge of rain has carried away most of the snow. 11. 
Snow. 13. More rain. The last snow entirely carried away . 17. More snow. 
21. The roads are all ice again. 26. More snow. 30. Incomparable sledding 
February. A cold month. 28. Warm and pleasant. March 3. A great rain. 4. 
Storm. 12. Cold. 17. Charming day; good walking. 24. Rainy. 30. We had 
smelts to-day, two coppers a dozen. 31. Charming spring-like weather, A. M, 
Jipril 6. The robins came and began to smg. May 12. Strangely cold. 15. The 
heat breaks in upon us. 22. The heart cherries are m the blow. 27. Cold. June 
11. A growing season, but poor prospect of grass. 16. Cold. 21. Extremely hot:, 
shower in the evening. 27. No rain since 21st. 30. Showers. July 20. People 
are concerned about the drought. 23. Great showers. 31. Deluge of rain. 
Jiugust 18. The grass grows more than m the spring. 23. Extremely hot. 26 
and 28, the same. September 28. We began to dig our potatoes; moderate fall 
October 13. Cold weather. 28. Storm of snow. 30. Charming pleasant since the 
storm. December 14. Snow. 19. Snow. 21. Exceeding cold; the thermometer 
down to 0. 

1768. February I. There is a great body of snow on the ground. 10. Four 
and a half feet in the woods, so that people are beat out of them, and pour in theii 
teams with wood. 27. All the week has been warm like April, and indeed all the 
month. The winter must be accounted moderate, except December, and a week 
in November ; the thermometer is generally between 36 and 40 degrees 
March. Generally cold and windy. 20. A terrible storm of snow . Jipril I. A 
great storm of snow . 9. It continues cold and wmdy. 21. A backward spruig 
29. Thermometer rose to 64 30, sunk to 47. Ma.y 13. Cold still, and the spring 
miusually backward. 20. The thermometer up to 72. 21. Now 76, P. M. sunk 
20 degrees . The cherry and damson trees begin to blow . 28 . The face of llu: 
earth is renewed and beautifully green. June 1 to 12. Frequent showers. 14. A 
great storm as ever we knew; wind S. S. E. that did a great deal of damage. 20 
Warm; here we may reckon summer begins. July 16. It rains almost every day 
22. A happy season for Indian corn. 25. Very hot. 26. The cherries are a good 
deal colored 31. Hot weather continues. September 16. Seasonable weather all 
the week. 29 A great frost last night, spoiled the unripe corn JVovcmber (5. 



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Pleasant. 20. A great storm of rain. 27. Snow. 30. It lias been an luiconiiiKi?] 
cold, cloudy, rainy Hill, as well as summer. December 31. The snow is all gone 
and the ground bare. 

1769. January. Very moderate weather most of the month, Fchrvary. Cok? 
weather came on. 17. The harbor and whole bay frozen up. 18. Warm, like 
summer. 21. Still warmer. 28. Here the weather changes to winter again, 
March 31. Has been a spell of true winter weather. .Spril 15, We set out oui 
cabbage stumps. 20. Very cold spring hitherto. 29. Very dry and very cold 
weather. May. Generally cold and rainy. June. Generally cold. 25. Fine hot 
weather. 29. Cold again. July 5. Raw; cold. 14. Very dry. 22. Thermome- 
ter at 83. From this time, much rain to the end of the month. August. A full 
and good crop of hay, and success in making it; and there is as good a prospect as 
the latter harvest. September. Foggy days. 8. Dreadful N. E. storm. 12. Cold 
nights but pleasant days. 16. An extraordinary week of warm days. 26, 
Delightful weather. 29. Charming weather every day. October 12. A deluge of 
water. 17. Another cold day. 27 to 31. Pleasant weather. J^Tovember 7. We 
have had a cold fall. 16. Very cold. 29. Last night the thermometer was down 
to 12. December 2. More moderate. 8. Severe cold. 13. Thermometer at 3 
o'clock down to 3. 23. At 4. 31. At 2, but fair weather and good walking. 

1770. January 5. Thermometer 2 degrees below 0. 7. Storm of rain ; ther- 
mometer 47. 18. Thermometer 3 below zero. 23. The harbor remains shut up. 
25. Colder still. 28. A warm day. February 1. Thermometer 3 below zero. 
15. Thaw. 23. Snowed all last night. 27. Thermometer 3 below zero. We 
have had a close winter, as cold perhaps as ever was. March. 9. Delightful fair 
morning. 14. Very cold, and good sleddmg. 18. The last sleighing. 31. Snow 
gone. Not much wmdy weather the month past. April 8. Pleasant. 19. Windy 
and cold. 28. Very hot; thermometer up to 23. JV/aj/ 5. Thermometer 74. 16. 
English cherries begin to blow. 25. Rainy. 29. Showery; the spring is unusually 
forward. June. Some raw cold days. 25. Hot growing season. 29. Thermome- 
ter 90. July 11. Hot, dry weather smce 25tli June; after which, there were 
frequent rains. September 8. Diydgain. 14. A deluge of rain. 20. Indian corn 
is thought to be out of danger. October 1. A delightful day. 3. Stormy and cold. 
11. A deluge of rain. 20. An exceeding great N. E. storm. 29. Pleasant; the 
most of the month has been raw, cold, rainy and stormy. JVovembcr. Generally 
moderate and pleasant till 27th. December. Generally moderate and pleasant, and 
(no snow) thermometer almost down to 0. 

1771. January 13. The frost seems to be getting out of the ground. 17. A 
vast deal of rain. 31. It began to snow; thus far an unusually moderate winter; 
but February has paid us off. 21. Thermometer down to zero. April, (until 
towards the last of the month) has been generally cold and unpleasant. May 6 
The spring is thought to be very forward. 20. Tlie heart cherry trees are all in 
blossom. June 17. Unusual cold days hitherto. 30, A remarkable grownig 
r.eason for every thing but Indian corn, which is exceeding backward. July 4 
Thermomctei up to 84, 11 Coo! day. 18. Cool still. 30. Very hot. .iiigu%t 



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11. People admire the seasonablcncss of the weather through llie suinmcr, ami tlu' 
universal fruitfulncss. October 19. A delightful summer day. 20 and 23, the 
same. 28 and 29. Two very cold freezing days. J\ovember. Much such a nionlh 
as last November. December has paid us severely; the whole of it (except two or 
(in-ee days) has been steadily cold, extraordinarily so, and stormy and snowing, 
21. The thermometer was 4 degrees below zero. 

1772. January 17. Peerless sledding. 31. Though it has snowed very often 
this month, there has been no deep snows. February 12. Thermometer at 0, and 
in the evening, 4 degrees below 0. 13. 16 below. 14, and 15, 8 below. 16. A 
moderate day. 20. A deluge of rain. 25. Easterly storm. 28. A beautiful gay 
morning. 29. It has snowed more than twenty-one times; all of them, except the 
last, very level. March. A cold, stormy, blustering month. April. Several 
storms and a number of pleasant days. May 1 and 2. Very hot. 12. Frosts and 
ice. 20. Growing time; the plum and cherry trees are blooming. 25 to 30. Raw, 
cold and rainy. 31. A summer day. June. Several cold days, yet a growing 
season. AugiistVl. The grass uncommonly well grown and good. 26. A deluge 
of rain. 30. Hot weather, and a growing time as ever was. September 30. It has 
been a remarkable fruitful summer. October 30. It is thought that near a quarter 
of the spring, summer and fall, has been rainy weather, and most of it stormy. 
December. Several summer-like days this month. 

1773. February. A cold, blustering, uncomfortable month, except the three last 
days, which were pleasant and moderate. March 1. Very moderate. 14. Pretty 
cold. 31. Spring-like day. April showers and melodious singing of the birds; 
among which were two robins, in such a manner as I never knew the like. April 
3. Raw; col,d. S. Spring-like weather. 15. Raw; cold. 21. Some warm days. 
25. Rainy. 30. Raw, cold easterly weather. May 1. The spring is thought to be 
a month forwarder than usual. 10. Wonderful hot summer weather. 12. The 
heart cherry and pear trees in blow, and the common cherry and plum trees are just 
upon it. 22 to 26. Ramy. June 3. A hot day. 7. Cooler. 11. Cold. 15. 
Strawberries plenty. 23. Wonderful weather. 28. Extremely hot, thermometer 
at 92. July 7. A melancholy dry time. 12. A smart thunder shower. 20. A 
great rain. September 9. Damsons begin to bo ripe. 12. Very cold. 18. Very 
hot. 27. The wells fail. 28. Extremely hot. 29. A storm of rain. 30. There 
lias been no frost to do any damage. October 31. This month has been a wonder- 
ful moderate, pleasant season. December \0. A storm of rain. 11. Surprising 
pleasant day. 19. It snowed all last night and most of to-day. 

1774. January 10. The thermometer in the study was down to 0, and in the 
wood house, 8 degrees below. 11. It was 6 degrees colder. 22. The thermome 
ler was down to the bottom of the plate. 31. More moderate. February 11. 
Moderate. 14. The snow is about a foot deep m the woods. March 31. This 
month has been very moderate. The robiriri came and tuned up. April 8. It has 
not frozen in the house snice ilic bcginnnig of l''ebruaiy. 13. The spring is very 
forward; wc began to dig our garden. 24. A surpnsnig hot summer day. 29. 
Storm of rain. May. A raw cold mouth; the spring backward S] A hot day. 



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June 6. Cold. 10. Summer breaks in upon nr5 17 Srt out cal)))ngp planl-^ 
July 10. Not n cherry or plum this year, 12, A inemorabh! growing season. 20 
We have had many small messp.s of peas, 29. Very hot; a fine hay season 
■August II. A melancholy dry time. 29. The flies arc vastly troublesome. Sr/i 
tember 1. Very hot and dry. 16. It is an exceeding dry time. 29. t'old. :^0 
Very hot. Oclober 10. Every day is unusually warm and constantly dry. 14 
Thunder shower, with a deluge of rain. 23. Warm. JVovember 3. It is almoet 
as dry as before. 5. It rained plentifully. 11. A calm and pleasant day. 16. 
A deluge of rain fell. 20. Very cold. 22. Storm of snow. 25. Storm of rain. 
28. Warm and pleasant. December 8. There is no frost in the ground. 14. Cold 
19. Rain all day, and at night a prodigious tempest; the rest of the month, snow 
and cold. 

177.5. January (i. Very cold days. 23. Very moderate weather. 27. \ 
.summers day. 28. Wondiu-ful moderate, February 7. There has been no snoW; 
and but little rain since the 29th of December; wonderful weather; we saw two 
robins. 11. Warm day. IS. Cold. 20. Snow, incomparable sledding. 21. A 
summers day. 23. A great snow storm. March 7. The frost seems out of the 
ground in the street. (On this day, (March 7) in the year 1621, Mourt says, in 
his relation of the affairs of Plymouth: "We begin to sow our garden seeds." — 
Princess Chronology.) 15. We have wonderful moderate weather. 28. It has 
been a wonder of a winter, so moderate and unfreezing. Jlpril 4. Cold days. 5 
A very stormy, snowy day. 12. Cold N. E. storm. May 6. The spring ha."^. 
hitherto been, and is, cold, wet and backward, except the grass. 19. Hot summers 
day. 31. The cherry and plumb trees are out of, and the apples in the midst of 
blossoms. June 7. A hot and dry season. 16. There was a .small frost. 22. 
Cold for several days. 29. A great storm of rain. July 2. The face of the earth 
is renewed afTectingly, bnt no grass on the neck. 11. It rained plentifully. 12. An 
extreme hot day. 21. A fine shower. August 12. We have plentiful rains. 20 
A wonderful year for fruit of all sorts. 29. It rained abundantly. September 30. 
A great frost. October 11. Very hot. 21. A great storm after the burning of the 
town, that lasted three days. JVovember. The whole of this month has been one 
contmued spell of severely cold, windy, winter like weather. December 24, 
Severely cold. 

1776. January 29. This month, like the two past, has been con.stantly and 
severely cold. The wind has been westerly all winter. February. A dismal cold 
snap of weather. 29. The past winter has been the coldest, in the whole, that has 
been known. The ground has been constantly covered with snow. March 19. It 
seems as if the summer was breaking upon us. April 22. It is a very cold, wet 
and backward spring. May 8. The ground has frozen three nights past. 10. 
A hot day and night. 12. Hot. 17. The heat continues. 26. Cold weather all the 
week. 31. Very cold still. June 12. Hot summer. 19. A drought seems to be 
coming on, with worms. 22. A small shower. 28. Hot for several days past. 29 
Showers. July. Plentiful rain through this month and the next. September 20 
Remarkable warm weather. 30= No frost yet to do any harm, A great prospect 



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of liidian torn. ..Vuvemlia' Thk vvIioIp niomli lias been renmkable for fiiiej 
mmleratf weather. Dcremhei 6. It is constantly moderate. 18. Signs of snow, 
lull none. 20. Very cold. 27. Extreme cold, 31. Cold; very poor sledding. 

1777. January 18. Pretty good sledding. February 11. It snowed all day. 
15 Very cold. 21. Storm of snow. 28. Conlinnal snow storms. Afurch 11. It 
has been surprisingly warm weather for some time, .dpril fi. Bad walking. 12 
\ wondiM-ful week of warm weather. May 15. It is agreed to be the coldest 
weather, and the most backward spring that ever was. 20. Raw; cold. 25. A 
hot summer day. 26. Raw, cold, with a deluge of rain. June 30. Cold, very 
(■old; nothing ever like it through the whole spring, and yet every thing is flourish 
tng, perhaps never more so, except Indian corn. July 9. A great cold storm, with 
nuich rain. 13. Dismal cold. 15. A hot summers day. 17. Everything is 
flourishing. 29. A marvellous fruitful sea.son as to every thing. August 18. 
Never was there such gardens, never such fields, never such pastures, never such 
a year for every thing. Hot weather to the end of the month. September 2. The 
earth is burthi-ned with its fruits. 8. There was a frost in several of the back 
lowns that killed the corn leaves. 13. Another great frost. The corn not hurt 
23. N. E. storm. 27. Fair. 30. Comfortable. October 9. Hitherto, this month, 
very pleasant weather. 10. Deluge of rain, and very high wind. 11. Very cold. 
21. It snowed all day. 25. The week past, raw, cold winter weather. JVovembcr. 
A cold stormy month. 

1778. January and February, True winter, both as to cold and snow. 
March 31. The whole month past has been a tedious spell of severely cold, stormy, 
snowy weather. April 25. It has been almost constantly cold, and very windy. 
28. We sowed our garden five weeks sooner than last spring. 30. The spring is 
forward, the ground is dry, but the weather cold. May 8. Rainy. 15. A summers 
day. 31. There has been a great frost two nights past. June 14. Cold weather 
a few days. 27. Fine weather for the Indian corn, wliich grows wonderfully, and 
there is as great a prospect of all the fruits of the earth as ever was. July 2. It is 
a dry time. 18. The drought awfully continues. 27. It is as grievous a drought 
as ever was known. 31. People fear a famine. The Indian corn curls, and is 
like to come to nothing; and there is no prospect of any potatoes nor turnips, nor 
any sauce at all. August 6. Plentiful rains. 9. Uncommon hot. It has been, 
through the whole, a fine, seasonable, hot summer. 16. Rain. 20. Extremely hot. 
21. A shower, short but plentiful. 26. A shower. September 17. No frost to do 
any damage. 30. Potatoes have grown to the wonder of all. October 1 to 8, 
Wonderful fine weather. 19 to 22. Same, and hot. 28. Wonderfully moderate. 
JVovember and December. Generally very cold and stormy — (see page 239.) 

1779. January 4. (Seepage 240.) 21. The harbor and whole bay froze over, 
26. Remained so till to-day. February 1. Pleasant. 4. Hot, thawy day. 7. 
Fair and moderate. 10. Thawy. 13. Windy and cold. 22. Moderate. March 
2 to 3. Delightful days. 9. Snow. 12. Storm of snow. 19. Snow. 22. South- 
erly snow storm. April 1 . A grievous cry for bread. 10. Four days past pleasant 
and warm. 19. Flounders plenly, 24. Pleasaut. 26. Began to dig our garden 



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■May 18. The cherries and plums begm to blow, but no grass yet. June 23. 
Strawberries at the best. 25. Several days of hot weather. Everything flourishes 
vastly. July 5. The Indian corn was never bo forward and flourishing. 14. A 
fine hot rain. 25. Steady rain. A wonder of a season. August 31. Cut our 
corn stalks; never was the corn so forward; poor hay season, by reason of the 
almost daily rains. September 4. A great tempest of rain. 12. Rainy. 18. Very 
hot. 24. A wonder of a potatoe year, so many, so large, and so good. October 1. 
No frost yet, though very cold for three days past. 4. Warm. 10. Very hot. 
23. Hot summer day. 29. Wonderful fine weather; never such a fine season. 
J\rovember ZQ . A moderate fall . December Z\. The past has been a true winter 
month, very cold and stormy, v/ith repeated snows. 

1780. January. A cold, stormy month. February. Some thaws and some 
cold weather until the 15th, thence to the 24th, moderate. 25. Very cold. 29. A 
most delightful day; a weather breeder. March 2. Blusteruig day, lion-like March. 

7. Pleasant. 12. Tempestuous. 18. Moderate and pleasant since the 12th. 26. 
Windy and cold. April 15. Moderate spring-like weather. May 1. No warm 
weather yet. 10. Summer forenoon, quite reviving. 11. Cold and windy. 18. A 
cold, backward spring. 24. A little summerish. 27. Thunder-showers, quite 
needful, it being a dry time. 30. No grass yet. June 30. A wonder of a winter 
the past, and a spring, and a summer thus far, so cold and till now dry. July 1. 
The grass grows to the admiration of all. 4. Very hot. 18. Plenty of rain. 28. 
Extreme hot. August 2. A blessed rain. 7 to 16. Sultry hot. 18. A wonderful 
change from very hot to very cold. 22. A fine season for vegetation. 24. A 
memorable hot night. 27. Extremely hot. 29. Intense hot day and night. 31. 
A great rain; very cold. September 1. Cold still. 3. Heavy showers. 21. Calm 
liot summers day. JVovember 1. A great snow storm. 30. The whole jnonth 
generally cold and stormy. December 1 and 2. Severely cold. 9. Moderate all 
the week. 18. No snow on the ground. 23. Snowed about five inches. 26. 
Snow knee deep. 28. The roads all blocked up. 

1781. January 6. Fine sledding. 9. Extreme cold. 23. A great storm of 
snow. 28. Rain and a thaw. February 1. Snow again, but turned to rain. 5. 
Severe cold storm of snow. 9. Extreme cold. 17. Great storm of snow. 20. 
Blustering and very cold. 24. The street is brim full of snow ; we are buried up. 
March \0. Cold month thus far ; fine sledduig. 15. A beautiful spring. 18. Rain 
and snow. 23. It snowed all day. 28 . Very cold and windy. April B. A great 
snow storm. 11. A heavy rain. 19. Snow again. 22. Cold and windy. 29. 
Moderate. Jlfa?/ 1 . Pleasant day, quite reviving. 9. Cold and windy. 15. Warm. 
20 and 21. Summer days. 30. Hot summer weather. June 11. A fine growing 
season. 19. Heavy shower, with thunder and lightning, and great hail. 27. A 
deluge of rain. 30. No summer but three days. July 5. A hot day and night. 

8. Extremely hot. 15. Very hot. 24. Small showers; a very dry time. 30. A 
merciful shower . August 6. A grievous drought. 13. A plentiful rain. 20. A 
deluge of rain. September 12. Hot weather. 20. Fine weather. 24. A summers 

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day. October 3. llorndcoiA. 10. A very hot 8uinin~rs day. 11. Hotter (like 
this day 59 years.) 22. It froze last night. 31. A luoderate fall, thus far. 
J^ovember 2. A great storm, and a deluge of rain. 11. A moderate day. 18.- 
Rainy. 23. Blustering and cold. 25. Storm of snow. 30- A tedious, cold, 
stormy month. December 7. Snow. 11. Good sledding. 28. Storm of fine snow. 
31. Another great snow storm. 

1782. January 1 to 7. Thaws. 11. Snow. 13. A great storm of snow. 16 
and 17. Severe cold. 28. Colder. 30. The harbor has been frozen up a fortnight. 
31. Cold still. Feiruar?/ 3. Still cold and snowy. 12. Colderthanany day yet. 28. 
A long, close, stormy and severe winter as perhaps ever was known. March 1. 
Moderate. 6. Rainy. 14. A fine day. 18. A deluge of rain. 23. Lion-like 
March. 26. High wind and cold. April 2. A delightful day. 7. A heavy rain. 
14. A pleasant day. 16. The spring is moderate and forward. 28 and 29. Pleasant. 
30. The spring is thought to be remarkably forward. May., A cloudy and wet 
month; but few fair days, and not a hot one. June 30. A wonder of a season; the 
Indian corn, that was backward, revived and flourishes. August 31. A memora- 
ble summer, with but few hot days. September 4. A horrid cold day. 16. Very 
cold. 17. Pleasant summers day; a wonder! 24. Plentiful rain. 30. A delight- 
ful day. October 5. A week of pleasant weather. 14. A dry time. 17. A grand 
rain. 23. A delightful warm day. 23. Another. 31. It snowed most of the day. 
JVovember 2. Very cold. 9. Moderate. 28. Horrid cold and windy. December. 
A cold month. 

1783. No journal of the weather nntil April, which was in general a pleasant 
month. May 9. After an unusual dry spring hitherto, there fell a deluge of water last 
night. 10. Another great rain. 20. Very cold, 21. Very warm. 22. A deluge 
of rain. 29. A hot day. 30. Very hot. June. The first part of the month, cold, 
cloudy and wet; the latter part, very hot. July 6. It rained plentifully. 11. A 
grand rain. 19. Hardly any hot weather this month. 25 and 26. Very hot ; our 
gardens are surprisingly flourishing. 30. A deluge of rain. August 7. Extreme 
hot. 8 and 9. Very cold, raw and windy. 12. Cold. 16. Extreme hot. 19. A 
surprismg growing season. 21. A very hot day. 24. Elxtremely hot. 28. More 
rain. 31. A remarkable uneven summer; some few days extremely hot; but the 
most of it heavy raw weather, with sea winds and cold. September has been 
like the summer, and particularly lilce the last month of it. October. The same; 
never the like ; a most memorable year. JVovember 12. A strange warm day. 
13. A deep snow. 28. A great storm. December. The first half moderate, the 
latter cold and stormy. • 

1784. January 31. The first week of this month was moderate, but the rest 
horrid cold, stormy, snowy weather. February. A cold month, and indeed a cold 
w'mter through the whole ; the longest and coldest ever known. March has been 
moderate, and not so very windy as usual. April 6. It snowed yesterday and went 
away to-day. 17. This is the third day of cold, rainy, snowy weather. 29. Raw, 
cold; the spring is very backward. May 9. A pleasant day, 15. A hot summers 



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day. 25. A deluge of rain. June 3. A hot morning. 5. A hot day; thus summer 
breaks in upon us. 12. Cold. 18. Hot. 20. Very hot. 27. Sunday. A terrible 
tempest, which obliged me to break off in riy sermon . 30. As growing a season 
as we could wish; strawberries are very plenty, large and good. July. Frequent 
rains tiiis month. 20. Extremely hot. 31. Fair, and good hay season, but not 
before. (See p. 253.) Augusts. Heavy rain. 14. We have had a week of 
very hot weather. 18. A wonderful growuig season. 23. Great rains frequently. 
September.2. A deluge of rain. 14. Uncommonly cold. 19. Cold. 29. A warm, 
delightful day. 30. No frost yet to hurt the corn or do much damage. JVovember 
30. A wonderful month; so moderate, and no hard frost until last night. December 
9. It has not frozen in the house yet. 11. Perhaps there never was so moderate a 
season. 13. Cold and windy; winter seems to be setting in. 19. A terrible 
windy, cold day. 20. Snow. 22. Another tenible storm of snow. 

1785. Fchrmry 3. Very cold — the harbor is frozen up. 12. A cold, stormy 
day. 13. Very cold and stormy. 20. Moderate for several days. 23. An ex- 
ceeding great driving snow-storm. March 1. Very cold. 9. More snow, but level. 
15. Very cold and windy. 24. Blustering cold. 31. True winter weather. Mpril 
3. More snow. 7. Middle-street is all water and mire. 10. Back-street, the snow 
is as high as the fences; no sleighs can pass. 13 and 14. Very cold. 24. The 
snow consumes surprisingly, but it is 2 or 3 feet deep in the woods. 28 and 29. 
Wonderful warm, spring-like days. J^fay 5. Cloudy and dull for five days past. 
8. Rainy. 14. A deluge of rain. 19. The country people are but now begmning 
to plant, the spring is so backward, cold and wet. 23. The May storm. 27. 
Deluge of rain, fatal, it is feared, to the Indian corn, just planted. 30. A hotdav, 
which causes the cherry and plum trees to begin to blossom. 81. Another hot 
day, which occasions great joy. June 2. A very hot day. 7. Cold. 18. Very 
hot weather. 21. Cold and rainy. 22. Very hot. 23. Raw; cold. 25 and 26. 
Hot. 27. Piercing cold. 29. Hot day. 30. Perhaps there never was a more 
seasonable year for grass. July 31. We have had marvellous seasonable weather 
hitherto; every thing is very flourishing; never a better prospect. Augusts. A 
deluge of rain. 9. Remarkably cold. 18. Third day of hot weather. 20. The 
heat continues; happy season! 22. A seventh hot day. 27. Cloudy, wmdy and 
cool. Septeviber has been (except a day or two) a mouth of raw, cold, uncomfort- 
able weather, but no frost yet. October. This month has been unusually cold, 
raw and unpleasant. November 6. Cold Sabbath. December 2. Cold. 4. A 
storm of snow.* 7. Snow again. 8. Horrid cold. 17. A deluge of rain, and a 
thorough thaw. 18. A summer's day. 19. Another; the snow is all gone, and the 
frost out of the ground. 25. Cold. 30. Severe cold storm of snow. 

1786. January. A cold month, though it closes moderately. February 18. A 
warm day, but the rest of the month was cold weather and good sleddmg. March 
7 and 9. Pleasant and moderate. 10. Windy and cold. 14. Moderate. 19. A 
Hiost beautiful day. 26. A surprising warm summers day. April comes in raw 
and cold. 2, A severe snow storm. 9 to 14. Cold and windy. 22. The whole 



284 smith's journal, 

week, except Friday, has been heavy, raw, rainy weather. May 31. The spring 
is thought to be forward; most people have planted. June 1. Summer commences 
with a hot day. 4. Extreme hot. 5. Cold. 7. Very hot. 13. Growing season. 
30. Never was more seasonable weather, and never a greater prospect as to all the 
fruits of the earth. July 2. Extreme hot. 9 and 11, same. 12. Rain; happy 
season. 18. Cold. 22. But a few hot days yet. 30. Hot A. M., but dismal sea 
wind P. M. August 31. Very little hot weather this month. September. The 
whole of this month has been wonderfully moderate. October 30. A wonder of a 
fall this, hitherto; almost constantly one uniform course of moderate weather. It 
has been as dry and hot as summer; no rain but one day. J\^ovember 12. Raw 
and cold. 17. It snowed, and came up windy and cold. 20. Cold. 25. Fine 
sledding; true wmter since the 17th. 30. So dry a fall was never known. The 
wells fail, and the prospect is dark as to water. December 1 to 3. Very cold. 5. 
Storm of snow. 8. Another, greater. 14. Moderate. 20. The roads are all 
blocked up with snow. 24. Cold and stormy ; a vast deal of damage done by the 
late storms. 31. The weather moderated. 

1787. January. Almost the whole of this month, it has been severely cold. 
February 3. Cold weather. 12. A little more moderate. 19 and 20. Cold. 28. 
There have been no deep snows with us, but from Portsmouth to Boston the roads 
have been blocked up, and to Newport and New-London it has been vastly deeper. 
Truly a memorable whiter. March 1. The heavy, dull weather still continues. 
4. Last night there was a great storm of snow, near a foot. 12. Pleasant. 13. 
The snow is 5 feet deep in the woods. 15. The closest wmter remembered. 19. 
Wonderful warm, pleasant day. 21. Winter seems to be over. April 4. A hot 
Bummers day. 5. Cold again. 8 to 17. Moderate and pleasant. 19. Five days 
of very blustering and tempestuous cold weather, night and day. 30. From the 
17th, this has been a cold month; but few warm days, yet we begin to dig our gar- 
den three weeks sooner than the two years past. May 8. A hot summers day. 
10. A storm of rain. 16. The dreadful eastern weather continues. 25. A deluge 
of rain. 26. Horrid cold, and frosts. 31. A cold spring. June 2. Dismal raw 
and cold. 18. The week past was hot weather. 24. A hot but wmdy Sabbath. 
25. Heavy rain. 30. Indian corn is backward, but there is a good prospect of 
English grass. July 1 to 3. Raw, cold, easterly weather. 7. Four days past very 
hot. 17. A fine rain. 19. Very cold. 23. There has not been a hot night this 
summer. 31. Nothing like summer yet. Alas! for the Indian com. August I 
and 2. Raw; cold. 3. Summer breezes. 13. Foggy. 21. No hot weather yet. 
27. Cold. 30. Warmer. September. Some warm and some cold weather. Oc- 
tober 2 and 3. Hot summer days. 8. Cold. 13, A week of warm weather. 20. 
A week of uncommon cold, wmdy weather. 24. Tliree surprising hot days 
31. The raw, heavy, cold weather returns. J^ovember 30. This month has been 
favorably moderate. The ground has hardly froze, and no suow. December. 
The weather has, this month, been quite moderate. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE FIRST PARISH/ 

March 5, 1735-6. Voted, that the people of Nevv-Casco have £25 allowed 
them to pay a minister, &c. 

January 11, 1738. Voted them £28 for the same purpose. 

July 17, 1740. Voted, that the meeting house on the neck, called the society 
meeting-house, (being built by certain proprietors) be a parish-house forever, (on 
certam conditions, which the proprietors agreed to.) 

March 7, 1742. Voted not to grant the request of a number of the inhabitants 
of New-Casco, to be released from paying rates to the Rev. Mr. Smith the 
ensuing year. 

August 26, 1745. Voted, that Justice Noyes, Mr. Freeman, and Mr. Mills, be 
a committee to enquire why the new meeting-house is not finished. 

March 12, 1749-50. Stephen Longfellow, Esq. was first chosen Parish Clerk, 
and it appears was successively appointed to that office untU the year 1773, when 
Theophilus Bradbury, Esq. was appointed, who was continued in that office till 
1779, when Mr. Joseph Noyes was chosen. In 1781, John Frothingham, Esq. was 
chosen. He was repeatedly chosen till 1815, when he declined ser\uig, and Ebe 
nezer Mayo, Esq. was chosen in his stead. He was continued till 1819, when 
George Bradbury, Esq. was chosen, who was re-appointed in 1820, and also for the 
present year, 1821. 

March 27, 1750. Four men were appointed "to take care that the boys" 
were "guilty of no misdemeanor at the meeting-house on the Sabbath." 

May 8, 1752. Voted, that the inhabitants on the eastward of Presumpscot 
river have their parish tax remitted to them the present year. 

A like vote was passed in 1753, and so long as they hired a minister to preach for 
them. 

* It appears by the records of the First Parish in Falmouth, that the first meeting of tlie 
inhabitants was holden at the meetins-house, on the 18tU February, 1733-4. It was warutd 
by Roger Deeriug, Esq., Justice of the Peace, on the application of Moses Pearson, Joshua 
Moody, Stephen Greenleaf, Henry Wheeler, William Pote, and Moses Gooid, for the purpose 
of choosing parish officers, and to see if the parish would " erect and build a garrison round 
the Rev. Mr. Smith's house, and any house in said parish, proper for defence." On this they 
voted in the negative. On the other matters, they chose Moses Pearson, Clerk; John East, 
Ilenry Wheeler, and Moses Pearson, Parish Committee. F. 

Previous to the above date, the records of the town and parish were kept together in the 
same book, there being no Ecparate organization of the parish imtil the time referred lo. 



286 smith's journal. 

March 20, 1753. On the petition of Samuel Gookin, and others, voted that 
there be an alteration made in the meeting-house, by moving each end, as far aa 
the galleries, twelve feet, so as to make twenty-eight new pews below, and four 
above, with a proper additional number of windows, agreeable to a plan exhibited. 
Several other votes passed to carry this into effect. 

JSTovember 23, 1753. The inhabitants of New-Casco, having petitioned the 
General Court to set off as a separate parish, and the parish having been notified 
thereof, voted unanimously to consent thereto, and that as many others living on 
the west side of Presumpscot as should find it convenient, might have liberty to join 
them. 

March 10, 1756. Voted, that £25 be raised to purchase Tate and Brady's 
Psalm Books, with the tunes aiuiexed. (They cost above £50.) 

June 12, 1758. Voted, that there should be a bell provided for the parish. 

March 14, 1759. Voted, that there be a steeple built to the meeting house. 
On the petition of Samuel Waldo, and otliers, voted that there should be a new 

parish taken partly out of the first and partly out of the second parish of this town. 

(Here the bounds of it are described, and it was afterwards called the fourth 

parish.) 

August 17. At a meeting called to see if the parish would build a number of 
pews between the pulpit and each side the gallery, the article was dismissed. 

July 17, 1764. Voted, that the parish concur with the church in their choice of 
Mr. Samuel Deane, to be settled as colleague pastor, with the Rev. Mr. Thomas 
Smith. 

March 27, 1765. Voted, that the article "to see whether the parish will 
excuse the people who belong to the church of England from paying towards the 
settlement and salary of the Rev. Mr. Deane," be dismissed. 

(Their taxes afterwards were remitted until 1773, when they were omitted to 
be taxed.) 

January 23, 1786. Voted to petition the General Court for leave to sell the 
parsonage lands, in order to raise a fund for the support of the ministry, and to tax 
the pews until such fund be raised. 

Axigust 28, 1787. A subscription having been set on foot for taking down the 
meeting-house and building a new one, the parish voted that they would con- 
sent thereto, provided a sufficient number of subscribers could be obtained to 
build the same, and would compensate the owners of the pews in the old house. 
(It remains yet, firm and good. ) 

September 12. On the application of Joseph M'Lellan and others, voted, that 
they, and such others as should see fit to join them, be set off from this parish. 

January 22, 1788. The parish appointed an agent to reply to their petition to 
the General Court for that [iur)to-e. and instructed hiiu to oppose an unconditional 
reparation. 



smith's journal. 287 

August 15, 1803. The parish took measures for building a number of pews in 
the front of the galleries. 

August 18, 1806. The parish appointed a committee to procure some euitablc 
person to preach on probation as a candidate for a colleague with Doct. Deane. 

April 10, 1807. The parish annulled this vote, and authorized the parish com- 
mittee to procure an assistant to Doct. Deane. 

April 14, 1808. The parish renew their vote to obtain a colleague for Doct. 
Deane. 

October 17, 1808. Voted, that the parish do not concur with the church in their 
call of Mr. Jolui Codman, as colleague pastor with the Rev. Doct. Deane. 

February 27, 1809. Voted to concur with the church in the choice of Mr, 
Nichols, as colleague Pastor with the Rev. Doct. Deane. 



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MEMOIR 



OF THE 



REV. SAMUEL DEANE 



Samuel De ane, to whose diary we are indebted for many interesting facts con- 
tained in the extracts which follow this notice, was descended from Walter Deane, 
who came from Chard, near Taunton, England, to Boston, in 1636. He soon after 
went to Dorchester, where he remained until 1638, when he established himself on 
Taunton river. He died in middle life, leaving a widow, Alice, four sons and one 
daughter. The descent of the subject of this memoir is through Jolm, the son of 
\^alter, who died in Taimton 1660, aged 60, his son John died Feb. 18, 1717 aged 
78, whose son Samuel, was born Jan. 24, 1667, and died October 1, 1731, havuig 
a son Samuel born October 17, 1700, who was the father of the subject of our 
notice: — who thus appears to be the fifth in degree from the first immigrant of the 
name in this country. 

His mother was Rachel Dwight, his father's second wife, of whom he was the 
oldest son, and born in Dedham, Mass., where his parents kept a public house, 
July 10, 1733. In 1745, his father returned to Norton, his native place, where he 
died. His brothers were Dr. Josiah, of Upton, Deacon Elijah, of Mansfield, who 
died in 1830, aged 94, Dr. Eleazer, of Plympton, John, of Standish, Me. and Deacon 
Daniel, of Norton. 

Dr. Deane was educated at Harvard College, at which he took his first degree in 
1760: his class contained 27, among whom were Thomas Brattle, Daniel Leonard, 
Jolui Lowell and Wm. Baylies, all men of note. Mr. Deane was a good scholar, and 
had the honor of being a contributor to the volume of congratulatory addresses 
presented to George 3rd, on occasion of his accession to the English throne in 1760. 
The volume was entitled " Pietas et Gratulatio Collegii Cantabrigiensis Apud 
JVovanglos. Bostoni, — Massachusettensium. Typis J. Green and J. Russell, 
MDCCLXi:' 

37 



290 MEMOIR OF THE REV, SAMUEL DEATfE. 

This volume was ia the small Quarto form, mid better printed than any work 
which had before been issued from the American press. It contained an introduc- 
tory address to the King, in English, attributed both to Gov. Bernard and Lt. Gov, 
Hutchinson, and 31 other pieces, of which 15 were in Latin, 3 in Greek, and 13 in 
English. The contributors, so far»as luiown, were Gov. Bernard, by whose advice 
the work was undertaken, and who contributed at least 5 of the pieces, viz., 3 in 
Latin, 1 in Greek, and 1 in English; President Holyoke, whose Ode, in Latin, was 
pronounced by the "Monthly" and "Critical" reviews of London to be truly 
Horatian: Stephen Sewall, master of the school at Cambridge, afterwards Professor 
of Languages in the College, and said by the late Dr. Harris to have been " the 
most accomplished classical scholar of his day which the College could boast " ; he 
was the largest contributor, and the pieces assigned to him are 4 in Latin, 2 in 
Greek, and 1 or 2 in English; John Lovell, the famous schoolmaster for near 50 
years in Boston; James, afterwards Gov. Bowdoin; Professor Winthrop; Judge 
Oliver; Dr. Cooper; the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Church; John Lowell, of New- 
bury, a classmate of Dr. Deane, afterwards Judge, and several who yet remain 
unknown. A prize of six guineas each was offered for the six best compositions, 
viz., an oration, poem, elegy and ode in Latin, and a poem and ode in English; the 
candidates to be limited to members of the College, or graduates of not more than 
seven years standuig. The compositions much exceeded the number proposed, and 
the competition seemed to be, who could crowd the most flattery into the smallest 
space; they were all sufficiently loyal and laudatory to be perfectly disgusting 
at this day : and what is more, they fell entirely short of their aim, as the 
College never received the slightest patronage or aid, in even a smile from the 
royal pageant on whom they wasted so much ammunition, and towards whom, 14 
years afterward, the halls of the College, and the arches of the whole country 
re-echoed a totally different strain. Letters from the Province agent, Jasper 
Mauduit, mentions " the presentation to His Majesty of the book of verses from 
the College," and there the matter ended, to the disappointment, no doubt, of.Gov. 
Bernard and the College, who probably had hopes of a condescending nod, if not 
of a graceful acknowledgement, or some more solid token of favor. 

Mr. Deane contributed an English poem. No. 10 of the series, and it is believed 
a Latin ode, but of this there is no certain mdication; the evidence rests partly in 
tradition, and partly in the recollection of a friend, of the admission of Dr. Deane 
as to the authorship. The English poem bears a favorable comparison in its tone and 
spirit with the other English odes; it is divided into 12 stanzas, of six lines each, of 
which the following ia a fair specimen: 

1. 

"Hark! to what melancholy sound 
Do pensive hills remurmur round. 

And echo with despair! 
What means this pale in every cheek. 
Say Muse! if grief will let you speak > 

The mournful cause declare. 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. SAMUEL DEANE. 291 

6. 

George is no more ! no more his arm 
Shall rescue the distressed from harm, 

Nor humble Gallia's pride. 
To him no more shall cities. yield. 
No more he'll from the martial field 

Triumphant victor ride. 

9. 

But see! The Illusthious Heir appears, 
Replete in virtue, ripe in years, 

Ascending Britain's throne; 
Tremble before him envious foes! 
Nor dare such majesty oppose: 

But cast your weapons down. 

12. 

Long, Glorious Prince, these kingdoms bless. 
And to complete thy happiness, 

Some kmdred soul be found; 
So may the Line of Brunswick, down 
To latest time possess the crown. 

And glory blaze around." 

The Latin Ode, which is believed to have been written by him, is No. XXI of 
the series, and styled " In Regis Inaugurationem: " it contains 12 stanzas , 
of four lines each, of wliich the following may suffice as a spechnen. It opens 
thus: 

Chara Brunsvici Soboles aveto! 
Te Salutatum celeres volaraus, 
Integra pignus fidei tenacis 

Mente Daturi. 

Q,ua petisti Rex! Solium Britanuum, 
Candido nee pulchra dies carebit 
Uspiam Signo: en! oriens renidet 
Luce Serena. 

And closes with the two following: 

Mentis ornatu decoratus amplo, 
Omne per vitae Spatium nitebit 
Primus in Reges opibus, simulque 
Primus honore. 

Qua patent leges Britonnm benignae, 
(His plagae mundi, subigantur omnea) 
Corde lactanti celebretu illic 
Fama Georgi. 



292 MEMOIR OF THE REV. SAMUEL DEANE. 

In 1763, Mr. Deane was appointed tutor at Cambridge, and held the office until 
he accepted the invitation of the Society in tliis town to become colleague pastor 
with the Rev. Mr. Smith. It was while he was tutor that the anecdote is told, which 
illustrates so well his readiness and wit. He was showing a stranger the curiosities 
in the Museum of the College, among which was a long and rusty sword, which 
might well have belonged to one of Cromwell's dragoons; the stranger asked the 
history of the sword. Mr. Deane replied, " that he believed it was the sword with 
which Balaam threatened to kill his ass." The stranger observed, "but Balaam had 
no sword, he only wished for one." Oh, true," said Mr. Deane, " that is the one 
he wished for." 

At the time BIr. Deane was mvited to the pastoral charge in this town, the affairs 
of the parish were exceedingly depressed; limb after limb had been torn from it, 
as the nucleus of new Societies, and at that precise time a rupture had taken place 
in its very centre, by which some of its ablest men, such as Waldo, the Waites, and 
Gen. Preble, seceded and formed a new Society on the Neck, on principles quite 
hostile to the Old Parish; so that the venerable pastor exclaimed, in 17C3, " I have 
been discouraged about my enemies; they talk of buildmg a new meeting-house." 
The talk resulted in action, and after sharp contention in regard to forms, an 
Episcopal Church soon arose by the side of the ancient puritan conventicle, the 
first since the jurisdiction of Massachusetts had been established that had been 
organized in the State. 

It was during this agitation that the firm supporters of the Old Parish thought it 
necessary to call in some powerful auxiliary to sustain its sinking fortunes. They 
therefore looked to Mr. Deane, a scholar, and a man of talent and reputation, to 
infuse new life into its almost paralysed members. The Church gave him a 
unanimous vote, in which the parish concurred by a large majority: and on the 
17th of October, 1764, he was ordained in the presence of a very large assembly, 
to the great satisfaction of the friends of the parish. By a reference to Mr. Smith's 
Journal of this year, it will be seen that great confusion and contention prevailed 
in the town at that time, on religious matters, which exhibited a state of society 
very far from conformity to the spirit of their Master, to whom they all appealed 
for authority. In February, two leading men among the seceders even came to 
blows. At the Parish meeting, held in March, the opposition, " after a hard 
struggle," carried a vote against providing any assistant for Mr. Smith. — Mr. 
Deane first came in May, and preached two Sundays, and again in June, and 
in July the in^ itation for a settlement was extended to him. The opposition about 
this time retired from the parish, part to the Episcopal Society, and part to the 
Stroudwater secession, and left their old and common mother to repose in the arms 
of her tried and faithful friends. The storm having now spent its fury, its adherents 
bound themselves more closely together, and the Old Parish reared itself again 
stronger than before, and enjoyed uninterrupted prosperity until the war of the 
Revolution prostrated, in a wide desolation, the public altar and the domestic 
dwelling. The parish voted to Mr. Deane £100 lawful money for a salary, and 
X133 6s. 8d. for a settlement: or as Mr. Smith expresses it, in other, but equivalent 
terms, " a thousand settlement, and 700 salary," which means old tenor. 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. SAMUEL DEANE. 293 

In 1765, the year after he was settled, he purchased the lot contaming 8 acres on 
the west side of the meeting house lot, extending from Congress street to Back 
Cove. On this he erected, soon after, the house m which he died; it is still 
standing, but so altered in its appearance that its author would no longer recognize 
it. It was originally two stories high, with a sharp roof falling on each of the 
four sides from the ridge-pole, with lutheran windows in front; a plan of the roof 
is given by Dr. Deane himself in a letter, which will be found in a note to Deane's 
Diary, under the date of Oct. 18, 1775. Its appearance before the alteration was 
antique and respectable, and becoming the venerable character of its owner. It is 
now owned and occupied by Mr. Samuel Chadwick. 

On the destruction of the town in 1775, Mr. Deane moved to Gorham, and 
established his residence on a farm lying between Bladam Ross's, the mother of 
Mrs. Tyng, and the dividing line between Gorham and Falmouth, now Westbrook. 
He designated the spot as "South Green," in the rear of which was a low, 
but beautifully rounded eminence, which he called "Pitchwood Hill," and which 
he afterwards dignified in a poem under that name, written during his residence in 
the neighborhood. Here he built a one story gambrel- roofed house, still standing 
on the spot, where, during the seven years of his retirement from town, he enjoyed 
the society of distinguished visiters from abroad, as well as of many of his 
parishioners, with whom he often interchanged social visits : among these, were 
Dr. CotRu's and Major Enoch Freeman's families, who lived a few rods east of 
liim, and Mr. Longfellow's, and Madame Ross's, who lived above him, in Gorham. 
He employed himself chiefly in agricultural labors, and was gathering the expe- 
rience which was afterwards exhibited in his Georgical Dictionary. 

He came to town often, frequently to preach, but did not return permanently 
until 1782. In this period, ministers partook of the general calamity ; their salaries 
were unpaid, and then- affairs ran into great confusion : though it must be 
confessed that the ministers of the 1st Parish, fortunately, had other resovn-ces than 
the contributions of the parishioners, and were much better off in worldly gear than 
most of them. But the Parish was in a sad state; its members were scattered, 
their property had been laid waste, their meeting-house, riddled by the shot of the 
enemy, was falling to decay, and with crippled means, they were under obligations 
to support two pastors. Dissatisfaction manifested itself in open complaints. In 
1783, the Parish applied to both ministers to relinquish a portion of their salaries, in 
■consequence of the extreme pressure of the times. Mr. Deane declined, and stated 
his reason in a long letter addressed to them, in which he says he had received but 
£300 for eight years past, during which he had sunk hundreds of pounds of his 
real estate; that all he asked was a bare support. After this, the salary voted to 
each minister was £75, which was the yearly stipend until 1792, w^ien Dr. 
Deane's was advanced to £100, and so remained during his life, with the addition, 
after 1797, of $51 66 a year, for a release of his interest in the parsonage, and of 
$16 67 after 1802, for a release of the weekly Sunday contribution, which had, 
from the establishment of the Parish to that period, been collected from strangeris 
and visitors. 



294 MEMOIR OF THE REV, SAMUEL DEANE. 

In 1787, the venerable pastors were doomed to renewed sorrow, in the secession 
of a very respectable portion of their flock to form the 2nd Parish, as I have 
particularly mentioned in a note under its appropriate date, in Mr. Smith's Journal. 
Still the Parish went on gathering strength, with the increase of population and 
wealth of the town, both of which received large and rapid accessions on the 
conclusion of peace. 

In May, 1795, Mr. Deane was left sole pastor, by the death of the venerable 
Smith, in the 94th year of his age, he huiiself being then in his 63rd year. And 
notwithstanding the growing infirmities of age, he continued singly to discharge the 
pastoral duties, earnestly desiring relief, until 1809, when the Rev. Mr. Nichols, 
the present pastor, was ordained his colleague. Previous to the invitation to Mr. 
Nichols, several prominent and distinguished young men had been employed to 
preach as assistants to Dr. Deane, and as candidates for settlement. Among 
these were Mr. Ely, afterwards of Philadelphia, Mr. Joseph McKean, late Pro- 
fessor of Oratory in Harvard College, Mr. Samuel Cary, afterwards of the Stone 
Chapel, in Boston, Mr. Miltimore, of Newbury, and Mr. John Codnian, of Boston; 
but to none of them had an invitation for a settlement been given, nor the subject 
brought before the Parish, except in the case of Mr. Codman. On this occasion, 
the Society did not concur with the Church, although Mr. Deane earnestly urged 
the matter. 

The settlement of Mr. Nichols, the particulars of which will appear in notes to 
the diary, was a great rehef to the aged pastor; and he now passed quietly to the 
close of his long life, assisting in pastoral duties as far as his health and strength 
permitted. He took a deep interest in his people, and watched with pride and 
pleasure the advancing prosperity of the Parish and the town. 

In 1812, October 14, he lost his wife, Eunice, fourth daughter of Moses Pearson, 
who had been his faithful companion and wise counsellor for forty-six and a half 
years. She was five years his senior; was thirty-nine years old when he married 
her, and eighty-five at the time of her death. They had no children. He did not 
long survive ; and on the 12th of November, 1814, he calmly resigned all liis 
earthly relations and burthens, in the eighty-second year of his age, and the fifty- 
first of his mmistry. His last words were, " Death has lost all his terrors; I am 
going to my friend Jesus, for I have seen him this night." He ofiiciated at the 
sacrament in July, and attended Church in October, for the last time. He was 
buried from the Church in which he had so long officiated, on the 16th November; 
on which occasion, the Rev. Mr. Kellogg, who had performed the last duties in the 
same place on the interment of Mr. Smith, was again called to a sunilar office for 
his departed colleague. The Rev. Mr. Miltimore, of Falmouth, made the prayer. 
Thus was brought to a close the ministration of those venerable men, Smith and 
Deane, which had extended through an uninterrupted period of eighty-seven years 
eight months; of which, during nearly thirty-one years, they were united together. 
This singular fact is destmed to become more striliing. And now, at the lapse of 
thirty-five years, when we arc writing, the third pastor, settled over the Parish in 
1809, is still surviving in good health, after a settlement of forty years, and more than 



MEMOIR OF THE REV. SAMUEL DEANE. 295 

one hundred and twenty-two years from the ordination of the first minister; during 
which, the Parisii has not been destitute of a pastor a single day ; and thirty-six 
years of the time it has had two. We rejoice to say there is a happy prospect 
of the long continued and vahied services of the present pastor, to give greater 
notoriety and mterest to the historical associations connected with that ancient 
Society. 

In a half century sermon recently published by the Rev. Theophilus Packard, 
of Sherburn, we are furnished with some interesting details relative to the 
longevity of ministers and ministries, from which I borrow a few facts. The 
longest pastorate on record, he says, is that of Rev. Nathan Buckman, of Medway, 
Mass., seventy years, from 1724 to 1795. The greatest age attained by a pastor, is 
94, by the Rev. Nathan Williams, of Tolland, Conn., whose pastorate was 69 
years, from 1760 to 1829. Others nearest to it, were Mr. Smith, of Portland, 
1727 to 1795, 68 years ; Mr. Adams, of Newuigton, N. H., 1715 to 1783, 68 
years; Mr. Whitney, of Brookline, Conn., 1756 to 1824, 68 years; Dr. Gay, of 
Hingham, Mass., 1718 to 1787, 68 years. Rev. Nehemiah Porter, of Ashfield, 
died in 1820, aged 99 years 11 months ; but he had left the pastorate many 
years before. The Rev. Nathan Birdseye, of Strafford, died in 1818, in the 104th 
year of his age, and is the only Congregational minister on record who reached 
100 years. 

Dr. Deane was a man of classical and literary taste. He often wooed the muse, 
not only at College but in subsequent years; beside his poems in the " Piefas et 
Gratulatio," he published other specimens of poetry, the waifs and strays of 
periodicals, which cannot now be gathered up. His longest poem was "Pitch- 
wood Hill," written in 1780, containing 140 lines : this was published for the first 
time, and without his consent, in the Cumberland Gazette, of March 5, 1795. It 
was re-published in a pamphlet form, also without his Imowledge, in 1806. 
Although it was received very favorably by his friends, at a time when good poetry, 
especially from American writers, was rare, it does not appear to possess, very 
highly, the inspu-ation of the muse. It opens with the following Imea : 
" Friendly muse, ascend the car, 

Moving high iii liquid air : 

Teach thy votary how to soar 

Heights he never reached before. 

Pitchwood Hill demands a song; 

Let my flight be bold and strong; 

May the landscape bright and gay, 

Raise to fame my rural lay." 
And closes thus : 

" Hither I '11 turn my weary feet, 

Indulging contemplation sweet. 

Seeking quiet, sought in vain 

In courts, and crowds of busy men ; 

Subduing av'rice, pride and will, 

To fit me for a happier Hill." 



296 MEMOIR OF THE REV. SAMUEL DEANE. 

His success was much more visible in works of solid fact; and his " Georgical 
Dictionary, or New England Farmer," still continues to be consulted with profit in 
the department of agriculture. In this branch, he pursued his labors zealously and 
scientifically, and was consequently more successful than any other person in this 
region of country. The results of his experiments and his experience, he 
embodied in that work, which was the first of the kind published on this side of the 
Atlantic, and was universally consulted by agriculturalists. 

On the 25th of 3Iay, 1787, the following notice of the forthcoming work 
appeared in the Cumberland Gazette. 

" Proposals for publishing by subscription, a large octavo volume, on Husbandry, 
with the followhig title page : 

'The New England Fa:^mer, or Georgical Dictionary, containing 
a compendious account of the ways and methods in which the most important Art 
of Husbandry, in all its various branches is, or may be practised to the greatest 
advantage, in this country. 

By a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.' 

It is expected to consist of about 350 pages, and will be a more complete system 
of husbandry than has been before published in so small a compass; the only one 
that has been attempted in this country, or that is adapted to its circumstances. 

It shall be delivered to the subscribers, neatly bound and lettered, at the moderate 
price of one Spanish milled dollar and one-third." 

It did not appear until 1790. A new edition was published in Boston, a few 
years ago, by Mr. Fessenden, editor of the " New England Farmer," embracing 
the experience of later times. 

Beside the above works, there were published of the Doctor's writings, an 
oration delivered in Portland, July 4, 1793, ; an Election sermon, 1794 ; two 
discourses to the young men of his Parish ; two on the Resurrection ; a charge at 
the ordination of Dr. Nichols, and some other discourses. His standing and repu- 
tation as a man of ability, were proved by his appointment as a Fellow of the 
American Academy, and by a doctorate in Divinity, bestowed upon him by Brown 
University in 1790, when those honors were distributed with a less liberal hand and 
with more discrimination than at the present day. The same year, the Rev. 
Samuel Hopkins, of Newport, R. I., received a similar diploma from that College, 
and Gen. Washington, one of Doctor of Laws, 

Dr. Deane was in person tall, erect and portly, of good personal appearance, 
and of grave and dignified manners; he was possessed of a keen wit, and fond of 
social conversation, in which he could always make himself agreeable. His style of 
preaching was calm, and without much animation; his sermons were brief, plain 
and practical, and without ornament or display; they were well written, but not 
calculated to kindle or excite an audience. He aimed more to convince the under- 
standing than to alarm the fears or arouse the passions. 

In 1787 he was chosen by the town a member of the Convention in Massachusetts 
for the adoption of the National Constitution, which he declined, having no taste 
for political life. He was subsequently chosen Chainnan of a Committee to consider 



MEMOIR OF THE REV, SAMUEL DEANE, 297 

and report on the " advantages and disadvantages of a separation of Maine from 
Massachusetts," whicli was then agitating this community, and made an able report 
on tiie subject. 

The portrait of Dr. Deane would not bo complete without some traces of hia 
theological opinions. For several years prior to his settlement, a change had been 
gradually takuig place in the religious views of the community. The first age of 
New England, up to the establislmient of the Charter of Massachusetts in 1692, 
was strictly a religious one ; the clergy governed the country ; no meastire of 
importance was adopted in which they were not consulted; they controlled public 
opinion and the usages of society : every thing partook of the religious feeling, and 
every communication was expressed in Scripture phraseology, which, in this age, 
that has gone into an almost opposite extreme, wears much the appearance of cant. 
But it was not so ; on the contrary, it was the genuine expression of a spirit deeply 
imbued with religious sensibility. Ahhough it cannot be denied that it was often 
used as a mask to cover the darkest hypocrisy and crime. 

By the new Charter, the government was differently constituted; the paramount 
power was retained in the mother country, which exercised a restraining influence 
over the affairs of the colony, and gradually weakened, if it did not subvert, the 
overshadowing authority of the clergy. New religious views and opinions, which 
had before been rigidly excluded, now began openly to manifest themselves; and 
Episcopalianism, which had been especially odious, rapidly gained ground under the 
patronage of government. The stem and rigid sentiments, which had bound down 
public sentiment, began to relax, and free discussion led to open and wider ruptures 
from the received opinions and the standards of Orthodoxy. The establislmient of 
Brattle street Church, in Boston, and the settlement of Dr. Colman over it, in 
opposition to all the other churches in that city, in 1699, and upon a more liberal 
principle than had before prevailed, or been permitted, was followed by other 
churches, and other clergymen. They did not openly disavow the doctrines of 
Calvin, but they received them with modifications, and practised upon them in a 
large and catholic spirit. Among those who took the lead in this reform, were 
Brattle, the minister of Cambridge, Colman, of Boston, and Leverett and Wads- 
worth, Presidents of Harvard College. 

In 1742, Dr. Charles Chauncey, of the 1st Church in Boston, who graduated at 
Harvard, the year after our Mr. Smith, openly took ground against Edwards, then 
of North Hampton, and strenuously contended against the doctrines and practices 
of Whitefield, who at that time visited New England. It was the controversies 
and agitations which grew out of the visits and preaching of Whitefield, that 
marked more distinctly the lines which divided the parties. Mr. Smith adhered to 
the theological opinions of the Old School, but considerably abridged of their 
severity; while Dr. Deane, born later, and educated under the influences of these 
discussions, inclined to more liberal views. He preferred the system of Arminius 
to that of Calvm, and denied the doctrine of the Trinity, and that of the Atonement, 
as explained by Calvin. Nor did his views accord with those of Unitarians at the 
present day, who had not, during his time, risen into a distinct party, or formed a 

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298 MEMOIK OF THE REV. SAMUEL DEANE. 

separate organization. His mind occupied a middle ground between the twu 
extremes, or may rather be said to have been in a transition state. 

He had no sectarian zeal or bigotry about him ; he was ready to commune with 
kindred spirits, and sincere lovers of God, whatever may have been their specula- 
tive belief in regard to his nature and mode of existence. His faith in God, in tln! 
mediation and atonement of Jesus, in the influences of the Holy Spirit, and the 
salvation of the just, was clear, firm and unwavering; but he did not believe him- 
self to be infallible, nor that it was his otfice to judge his neighbor for modes of 
belief, provided his conduct was right, nor pronounce him condemned of God, for 
any mistake on a metaphysical dogma. His language, was, "The Deity will not 
punish us in another world for not having understood in this what cannot be under- • 
stood." 

Dr. Deane associated with the principal clergymen of the day on both sides of the 
disputed line. He was equally the friend of Presidents McKeen and Appleton, of 
Bowdoin College, as of Dr. Coffin, of Buxton, Dr. Lothrop and others, of Boston. 

Among his friends and correspondents, was the Rev. Dr. Mayhew, of the West 
Church, in Boston, one of the ripest scholars and most liberal theologians of his 
day. He possessed great independence of mind and purity of character; and took 
decided ground on the liberal side of the prevailing controversy. We think, from 
the intimacy there was between them, and from a review of their opinions, that 
there was a striking harmony in their views. The following extract from Dr. 
Mayhew's works expresses in a more extended form the idea which is conveyed 
by the language of Dr. Deane, which we have just quoted. He says, " It is 
infinitely dishonorable to the all good and perfect Governor of the world, to imagine 
that he has suspended the eternal salvation of men upon any niceties of specula- 
tion; or that any one who hone.«tly aims at finding the truth, and doing the will of 
his Maker, shall be finally discarded." Again. " The divisions and contentions 
that have hitherto happened, and still subsist in the Christian Church, are all, in a 
manner, owing to the unchristian temper and conduct of those who could not 
content themselves with Scripture orthodoxy — with the simple, spiritual worship of 
the Father, enjoined by our Saviour, and with the platform, of church discipline 
enjoined in the New Testament." 

Such I believe to have been the opinions of Dr. Deane. He was not very com- 
municative in regard to his religious views, probably from the fact, that while he 
differed from, and could not receive, the prevailing opinions concerning. the Trinity 
and the Atonement, he had not formed distinct and definite ones for himself ; he did 
not believe that the doctrine of the Trinity was revealed ; he could not resolve the 
metaphysics ; and his imagination was not sufficiently sanguine to persuade him to 
receive for facts what he could not comprehend. Even Deacon Freeman, one of 
his best friends, and who had been intimately connected with hmi many years, as 
late as 1807, confesses that he did not understand his views on those two leading 
matters of controversy. And Mr. Payson, who visited him frequently in his last 
illness, takes it unkindly that he did not unbosom himself to him, and converse 
freely with him on religious topics : he says, " Not a word of a religious nature did 



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he utter." This, however, may be explained in a way not to reflect upon the reli- 
gious sensibility of Dr. Deane. Mr. Pay son had stood, and was then standing, 
in an attitude of estrangement to the 1st Parish and the junior pastor, and 
ought not, therefore, to have expected from this aged pastor, a father in the 
ministry, unreserved communications in regard to his spiritual condition and 
hopes. Let us not be so uncharitable as to infer that the venerable minister, 
whose life had been spent at the altar, was indifferent to religion, or his destiny, 
by his silence on the occasion of those visits. Let us look rather to the declaration 
of trust contained in his last utterances, before quoted, as his spirit was just going 
to its account, for the evideyce of his faith and the assurance of his hope. 

Dr. Deane kept a diary from the year 1761 to the year of his death, 1814, a 
period of 53 years. It relates principally to his domestic affairs, and is meagre in 
particulars of public interest : it was kept on mterleaved almanacs. The almanacs 
were purchased at the sale of his effects, by one of his parishioners, and presented 
to me. I have endeavored to extract, for the following pages, every thing of 
general importance; among which, are his notices showing the growth of the town 
after the peace of 1783, and the deaths and marriages attended by him during his 
ministry. To many, these memorials will be valuable, and they will furnish 
interesting details to all who are desirous of tracing the progress of our city through a 
period of extreme depression to its present prosperous condition. I have endeav- 
ored to give additional interest to the extracts, by explanatory and biographical 
notes. The first entry in his diary is February 1, 1761, the last, October 18, 
1814, twenty-five days before his death. 

The whole number of deaths, which he records as having attended, is 1130, or 
22 3-5ths a year, on an average; the largest number for any one year was 63, in 
1800; the next, 55, in 1802. The whole number of marriages is 572, or an 
average of 11 ll-25ths for each year. These are such as he attended himself; 
others are mentioned in his diary which are not contained in his list. There are 
very few entries of deaths or marriages between 1775 and 1782, when he lived in 
Gorham. I have placed the deaths and marriages in alphabetical order by them- 
selves, for more convenient reference. To them, I have added a list of deaths for 
twenty years, from 1822 to 1842, from a register kept by our respected townsman, 
Enoch Preble, who had an accurate taste in such things, and whose honorable and 
unblemished life was terminated in September, of the latter year. It does not, 
however, contain the whole number of deaths which took place in town during thai 
period, but is confined principally to prominent cases. 



E X T R A C 'V S 



FROM 



DR. DEANE'S DIARY 



1761. 

February 5. Di^d, Mr. Pres. Davies, aged 37. ' 9. Came from 
home; sad "travelling. 10. Came to College. ^ 13. Mrs. Cook died. 
15. Mr. Jackson preached at Cambridge. 26. Taking out books. 

MarcA 4. Mr. Cushing's Lecture. 5. Mr. Clark's do. 20. Taking 
out books. 30. Went to Marlboro'. 

April 6. Corporation meeting. 22. General Fast. 27. Lowell 
set out for Philadelphia. ^ 

May 1. Taking out books. 3. Universal colds. 20. Mr. 
Stone's ordination. ■* 

July 19. Began at Walthara.'' 27. At Dedham. 29. Mr. 
Palmer's lecture. 

Augusts. Lay still. Sunday. 9. AtBrookline. 16. At Wey- 
mouth. 23. At Little Cambridge, for S. Davies. 30. At Weymouth. 



1. Samuel Davies, Pres. of Princeton College, a native of Delaware, an 
eloquent preacher, of vigorous understanding and high literary attainments. His 
published sermons were universally read and greatly admired. 

2. He was librarian at the College, from 1760 to 1762, and the several entries 
"taking out books" has, probably, reference to that occupation. He was also 
Promus, Butler or Steward, a portion of this time. 

3. His classmate, John Lowell, afterwards Judge of the U. S. Court, and father 
of John, Rev. Charles, &c., who died greatly respected \i\ 1802. 

4. Eliab Stone, H. C, 1758, of Tramingham, born May 5, 1737, settled at 
Reading, North church, died August 31, 1822, aged 86. 

5. This was Sunday, and was probably his first attempt at preaching. There 
are constant entries of the places where he preached, a few of which 1 have 
noticed. 



302 deane's diary, 

October S. Sally Livermore deceased ; grandfather deceased, 
28. Bought a load of wood at 52s. 6d. 

December 18. A very cold evening. 24. Ice a foot thick under 
the pump. 

1762. 

February 21. Preached at Castle William, (The diary for this 
year contains only entries of places where he preached, and notices 
of lectures. The almanac for 1763 is not interleaved, and has only 
an occasional notice of his preaching.) 

1764. 

Jarmary 2. Dined at Mr. Appleton's, with the graduates,' 
5. Thursday. Heard Dr. Sewall preach lecture from " He is thy 
life and the length of thy days." Dined at Mr. Savage's, tea at Mr, 
Cooper's. 13. Friday. The General Court came up to College, 
The President opened the assembly by mentioning the occasion of the 
present meeting, and requested the Governor to give a name to the 
new house. Then the Governor said, I name it Hollis Hall. Then 
the President called upon the Orator to address the Court, which he 
performed in an Oration of about nine minutes' length. Then they 
repaired to dinner ; after which, the Speaker presented the key to the 
Governor, and the Governor to the President. - 24. Tuesday. Har- 
vard Hall reduced to ashes, with the whole library and apparatus, &c. ' 
28. Arrived at Col. Tyng's. 

1. Rev. Nath'l Appleton, the minister at Cambridge, and a member of the 
Corporation; he graduated 1712, and died 1784; a man universally beloved. 

2. The President at this time was the Rev. Samuel Holyoke, the Gov, Francis 
Bernard. The Orator was Joseph Taylor, a member of the junior class. This 
buildiu<T, which cost about £5000, still stands, a monument of the liberality of tlie 
government, and the architectural taste of the day. 

3. This was the greatest loss the College ever sustained ; the building was 
erected m 1682, and was the only one of the ancient buildings that remained. 
The library and philosophical apparatus had been the gradual growth of more than 
a century, and were very valuable. The library contained 5000 volumes; among 
them the libraries of the learned Doctors Lightfoot and Theophilus Gale, bequeathed 
by them, containing the Targums, Talmuds, all the Fathers, Greek and Latin ; the 
Greek and Roman Classics in fine editions, presented by Bishop Berkley, and 
many rich and rare works. The philosophical apparatus was also valuable, 
containing an orrery, telescopes, microscopes, a brass quadrant of two feet radius, 
carrying a telescope of greater length, which had belonged to the celebrated 



DEANE S DIARY. 



303 



February 1. Ministers Hall, Parker, Bridge and Merrill, dined 
at Col. Tyng's. (Dunstable.) 6. Began a pair of sermons, which 
I finished Thursday evening. The family of Tyng's dined here. ' 

February 18. Went to Londonderry with the Judge and Col. 
Apland ; rid over Long Pond, through Pelham and Wareham ; 
dined at Mr. Livermore's, with Major Rogers and his lady ; returned 
through Nottingham, Mr. Merrill's Parish, over the ferry near 
Spxingfield. 15. Settled with the Steward, received £1. 14s. 

April 4. Composing. 5. Composing. 6, Composing ; attended 
Mr. Appleton's lecture, from "forgetting the things that are behind," 
&c. 17. Mr. Marsh broke his leg. ^ 18. Watched with Mr. Marsh. 
Storm of snow at night, wind E. N. E. ; the highest tide that has 
been known this twenty years. Dykes broke through at Cambridge. 
19. Subscription begun for a new apparatus ; I subscribed $5. 

Dr. Ilalley, ami many other liighly finished instruments. The loss was deeply fi-it 
throughout the colony, and a prompt spirit of sympathy hastened to restore the 
loss. (Quincy's Hist, of H. C, vol. 2, p. 479.) We present a view of the building, 
fis a specimen of the ancient style of architecture. 

1. Of this old and respectable family, having very large landed estates at 
Dunstable, now Tyngsborough, entailed upon the oldest male heir, not one member 
remains bearing the name. The estate has consequently gone into the female line, 
wearing other patronymics than those which the proud ancestors endeavored, though 
fruitlessly, to perpetuate. Brinley is the name under which they are now held. 

2. Thomas Marsh, a tutor from 1741 to 1766. 




HARVARD HALL— ERECTED 1 682— DESTROY E D 1764 



304 DEANF.V PIARY. 

Ajn'il 30. Rode to Cambridge in six hours (from Dunstable) ; 
brought a salmon behind me. Bottled seven dozen and eight of cider 
for myself, and three dozen and eight, for Sir Marsh. To pay the 
Steward £4 for the cider, and 7s, 6d. for the isinglass. 

May 4. Dined at my brother's, at Upton. 14. Monday. Began 
my journey; lodged at Baylies.* 15. Dined at Mr. Lowell's, &c. 
16. Proceeded to Portsmouth ; dined at Col. Moulton's. 17. Dined 
at Mrs. Haven's. 18. Proceeded to Wells ; dined at York, lodged 
at Hemenway's. 19. Arrived at Falmouth. 20. Preached in the 
afternoon. 21. Went to Windham. 22. Tuesday. Went to N. 
Yarmouth. 23. Walked on the Peninsula ; dined with Mr. Pike. " 

24. Went to Jewell's island. => 25. Dined at Mr. Bradbury's. ■» 
26. Dined at Capt. Ross's, (Alexander). 27. Sabbath. Preached 
for Mr. Smith all day. 28. Dined at Thomas Smith's, (son of the 
pastor.) 29. Rode to Saco and Wells. 30. Rode from Wells to 
Epping ; dined at Cocheco, (Dover) ; parted with Messrs. Smith and 
Brooks. N. B. The spring three weeks later at Casco than Boston ; 
no water melons raised there. 

June 11. Rode to Epping ; dined at Flagg's, 12. Rode to Wells. 
13. Rode to Falmouth. 14. dined at T. Smith's. 15. Preached a 
lecture. 16. Dmed at Mr. Codman's, tea at Mr. Pearson's. 17. 
Preached for Mr. Smith, Falmouth. 18. Dined with the Parson. 
19. Dined with Capt Pearson ; went to wedding. 20. Dined with 
the Parson. 21. Dined at Capt. Waite's. 22. Dined at the Par- 
son's. 23. Dined at Mr. Thomas Smith's ; was invited to dine with 
Mr. Wyer and Col. Waldo. 24. Sabbath. Preached at Falmouth. 

25. Rode to Georgetown. 26. Rode to WiscasseL 27. Rode to 

1. This was his first journey into Maine. 

2. Col. Timothy Pike. lie came from Newbury, was a blacksmith by trade, 
and lived on King street. He married Elizabeth, a daughter of Ephraim Jones. 
In the latter part of his life he removed to Saccarappa, where he died. 

3. A beautiful Island in Casco bay, where it was once supposed that Kidd, the 
pirate, had deposited jewels and other property. It took its name from a large 
quantity of pyrites upon it. 

4. Theopliilus Bradbury, then a young lawyer, who graduated at H. C. 1757, 
came here in 1762, and August 26, of the same year, married a daughter of 
Ephraim Jones. He moved to Newbury during the Revolution, 1777; was subse- 
quently appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and died in 1803. 
See note to Mr. Smith's Journal, 1779, page 243. 



beane's diary, 305 

Brunswick. 28. Rode to Falmouth. 29. Dined at the Bishop's.* 
30. Dined at Thomas Smith's. 

July 1. Sabbath. I preached in the forenoon, Mr. Barnard, of 
Salem, in the afternoon. 2. Departed from Falmouth at 9 o'clock ; 
dined at Saco, Mrs. Allen's, gratis, lodged at Littlefield's, (Wells.) 

August 2. Gave leave Hancock and Mayhew to go to Boston ; to 
Marsh and Freeman to go to Roxbury ; to Johnson to go to Water- 
town ; to Bowman and Kidder to go to Charlestown. ^ 9. Thaxter 
to be put in with Hitchcock, and Rogers with Mayhew. Porter's 
letter to be produced ; chairs at the dining room. Mr. Farrar's petition. 
Winslow's punishment taken off. Towle's petition to live out not 
granted. Ezra Green'' not to live out; that Leonard live in 
town ; that Farrar live in town ; that Kelley live in No. 4, Mass. ; 
that Pike be excused from being in Commons for supper ; that Pen- 
niman be out of Commons ; that Star live w4th Bond ; that Porter, Jr. 
live with Porter, Senior. 22. (He left Cambridge on his third visit 
to Falmouth, and reached there on Saturday, 25th, at 10 o'clock.) 
26. Sabbath. Preached both parts at Falmouth. (He spent the 
week at Falmouth, dining out every day.) 

September 2. Sabbath. Preached afternoon at Falmouth; gave 
my answer. * Frost last night. 3. Rode from Falmouth to Wells ; 
(so home to Cambridge.) 7. Mrs. EUery died. 10. Mrs. EUery 
buried. 12. Rainy, vesy rainy. Mr. Pike, at College, told a story of 
Mr. Smith's marrying a couple at Spurwink. (Anecdote not 

1. He refers to the venerable Smith, who had so long been the Overseer of the 
church here, and was the leading clergyman in the State. 

2. We extract these and a few followuig entries to show the discipline of the 
College at that tune, and his acts as tutor. 

3. This was Dr. Green, 1765, the oldest graduate, who died July, 1847, aged 
101. 

4. The notice of this fact is the last entry of Mr. Smith's in the Church records, 
and is as follows : " July 2, 1764. The Church had a meeting relative to a 
colleague pastor among them, and unanimously made choice of Mr. Samuel Deane, 
July 17. The parish, by a great majority, concurred with the church." 

"Sept. 2. Mr. Deane read his answer in public, being Lord's day, to tlie 

church and parish, in the affirmative. 
N. B. The answer, untranscribed, is among the original papers in this book." 
We must add another N. B. to this, to express our regret that none of the original 

papers of the 1st Parish, except the volume of records, can be found. They 

probably were scattered during the war. 
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306 deane's diary, 

preserved.) 13. To go to Boston to-morrow to get a suit of clothes ; 
bands, breeches leather, pay Mr. Condy for the World, a gown, 
saloup, whip mended, call at Dr. Chauncy's. 14. Bought of Mr, 
Condy a suit of clothes ; employed the lady of Mr. Condy to make 
some bands, three with wide hems ; paid Mr. Condy for the World ; 
bought a pair of breeches at $2. 17. Keceived £260 for preaching 
at Dunstable, (twenty-five Sabbaths and one Fast.) 27. Went to 
Boston and shipped my goods. 30. Sabbath. Preached at Mr. Ha- 
ven's, being his sacrament day ; (Dedham.) He began the adminis- 
tration by declaring the occasion ; then a prayer upon the scheme of 
redemption and the institution of the ordinance : then the bread was 
eaten ; then the cup was taken, and an affectionate prayer made ; then 
it was drunk; then an hymn, and then a prayer for the good efTects 
of the ordinance, for brotherly love, for the increase of the Church, 
then the doxology. 

October 2. Meeting of the Corporation and Overseers ; Mr. SeAvall 
chosen Professor of Oriental languages ; * Messrs. Hancock and 
Marsh re-chosen tutors. 3. To go to Boston to-morrow to get a plat- 
form, and Henry on the Sacrament, bands, breeches, lemons. 8. Set 
out for Falmouth; lodged at Davenport's, Newbury. 11. Began to 
board at Mr. Smith's, 14. Sabbath. Mr. Adams preached both 
parts of the day. 17. Wednesday, My ordination. Mr. Adams 
began with prayer; Mr, Meriam preached.; Mr, Morrill prayed 
before the charge ; Mr, Smith gave the charge ; Mr, Smith, Jr, the 
right hand, and Mr. Woodward the last prayer.* A foggy day; 
spent the evening at Mr, Longfellow's. 18. Dined at Father Smith's ; 
married a couple this evening, Jonathan Usley to Dorcas IngersoU ; 
evening at Mr. Bradbury's.^ 23. Set out in a sloop of Mr. 

1. Stephen Sewall, H. C, 1761, the first Professor of Oriental Languages, and 
the best classical scholar of his day. He held the office 20 years, and died in 1804. 

2. Further particulars of this interesting occasion will be found under the date 
and notes in Mr. Smith's Journal, p. 201. I am inclined to think that the Mr. Adams 
who preached the sermon, was Amos Adams, H. C, 1752, settled in Roxbury, 
Mass., 1753, and died 1775. He published several discourses, and wasa learned man. 

3. This was Mr. Deane's first marriage in Falmouth. For more convenient 
reference, an alphabetical list of all marriages and funerals attended by him will 
be brought together at the close of the diary. .Tona. Ilsley was son of the first 
Isaac Ilsley, and is noticed more particularly in a memoir of his father's family, 
in a note to Mr, Smith's Journal, 1747, page 128, 



deane's diary. 307 

Codman's for Harpswell ; becalmed, befogged, benighted ; had to walk 
from Stover's Cove to Mr. Eaton's. 24. Ordination of Mr. Eaton : 
very cold.' All day turning it home — wind S. W. 26. The most 
violent storm known these many years ; the new wharf of Major 
Waite spoiled; Capt. Pearson's hurt; Stroudwater bridge damaged; 
the rain beat through all the front windows and door of our house. ' 
30. I married James Barton to Lydia Ingersoll, at Sawyer's. 31. I 
wrote the confessions, &c. 

November 8. Married Andrew Crockett to Kebecca Hunt to-night, 
13. Went to North Yarmouth with Mr. Epes. ' 14, Returned with 
him ; tea at Mr, Bradbury's ; a little earthquake at 12 o'clock, 
IS. Sabbath. Preached at Gorham ; Mr. Williams here ; John 
Cotton publicly declaimed against me at the time of contribution. * 
22. Went to Major Berry's to launching ; raw wind. Married John 
Knight to Sarah Renney. 29, Thanksgiving day ; I preached and 
made the last prayer. 

December 4. Married Thomas Stickney to Susannah Briggs, 
5. Wrote a long letter to Dr. Mayhew, &c. ; spent the evening at the 
Bishop's. 6, Mr, Williams dined with me. * I married Bagley, John, 
to Lowell, Mary, 8. Very rainy ; rode to North Yarmouth ; snow 
in the night. Heard that the Indians virere seen by the Gloucester 
people. Oh the absurdity of that law made last winter, to prohibit 
the English from hunting in the woods ; hereby the Indians are 
encouraged to hunt near us and learn our weakness, and the way to 
attack us next war. Dreadful travelling. The man-of-war barge 
drawn up the hill, 11. Very cold morning. Father Skillings buried 
in his own ground ; Mr, Smith prayed at the funeral ; extremely 

1. See Mr. Smith's Journal, note, page 201. 

2. Major Waite's wharf was near where the Portland Co.'s works are. Capt. 
Pearson's was where the Custom House wharf is, 

S. Probably Daniel Epes; he graduated at H. C, 1758, came here from Dauvers 
and went into trade at Stroudwater. He married Abigail, a daughter of Charles 
Frost, in 1781, and after the Revolution moved to this town, and become an 
insurance broker. He died in May, 1799, aged 60, leavuig one daughter, who 
survived him about 10 years. 

4. Son of Deacon Wm. Cotton, born in 1741 ; he was insane, and used (o 
preach about the streets. 

5. Probably Ebenezer WilltaniS; H, C, 1760, and next year settled over the 
j>5ew Casco Parish. 



308 deane's uiaky. 

pinched with the cold. Found Mr. Fuller at my lodgings ; he lodged 
with me, breakfasted with me. ' 13. The most cold, blustering day 1 
ever knew; dined at the Sherifi''s with posse comitatus. (Moses 
Pearson.) 14. Sent a letter by Capt. Cox to Dr. M. (Mayhew,) and 
to Malachy Salter. Mr. Foxcroft and Mr. Fuller sat out for their 
respective Cures. ^ A story. Drowne, the lay preacher at Ports- 
mouth, took for his text the words of Christ, take no scrip. These, 
my hearers, says he, naturally lead me to preach against preaching 
with notes : the word scrip is derived from the latin word scriho, to 
write ; scrip, therefore, is a writing ; so that the apostles were to take 
no writing with them when they went about to preach the gospel. 
Though you may love to have your ears tickled with the high flown 
language of a man who has had an epidemical degree, be assured it 
is a very unscriptural way of preaching. 17. I married Joseph 
Wells to Lydia Berry, at Capt. Waite's. 19. Mr. E. Moody promised 
to let me have his half lot at the same price Mr. Howell gave for his. 
Sashes are 2s. 6d. a square, 22 windows containing 24 ; £66 for the 
sashes;^ (then follow other calculations for glass, timber, &c.) 
21. Dined at Joshua Freeman's, with the relations and Col. Powell. ^ 
December 26. A violent storm of snow, N. E. Bang's wharf 
spoiled with the tide. * 27. Capt. Stickney died. 31. Attended the 
funeral of Capt. Stickney. ® 

1. Timothy Fuller, who was supplying the pulpit at New Casco, and was 
invited to a settlement there, which he declined, and was afterwards settled in 
Princeton, Mass. He was a classmate of Dr. Deane. See note Smith's Journal, 
1765, relative to Mr. Fuller, p. 204. 

2. Mr. Foxcroft for New Gloucester, and Mr. Fuller for New Casco. 

3. He was now thinking of building a house, which he carried into effect, May 
6, 1765; he purchased of Enoch Moody and Arthur Howell, for £60, the three acre 
lot next west of the lot on which the meeting house of the 1st Parish stands, and 
there erected the house, which still remains, although so modernized that none of' 
the external lineaments are preserved. See page 205. 

4. The relations mean the connections of Miss Eunice Pearson, whom he 
afterwards married. Joshua Freeman married her sister, and no doubt gave the 
entertainment in honor of his engagement. Col. Jeremiah Powell, of North 
Yarmouth, a particular friend. 

5. This was from the point east of Clay Cove. 

6. Jacob Stickney, aged 28; he married Mary Cobham. in 1759; he was son of 
David and Mary Stickney, and bora Sept, 20, 1737. 



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1761 



January I. Married Abner Lowell to Mercy Paine. 2. Attended 
the funeral of Mr. Conant, 4. Preached a lecture at Mr. Snow's ; 
Mr. Fuller made first prayer. I baptized Betty Knight. 11. Funeral 
of Mr. Henry Wheeler's wife. 12, Extremely cold ; harbor frozen over 
in the morning. The snow is about two feet deep on a level, and we 
hear it is four feet deep in Boston. 15. Rode to New Gloucester 
in company with Messrs. Smith, Longfellow, Bradbury, Pike, 
Browne, Fuller, Noyes. Found Messrs. Morrill, Fairfield, Hooper, 
Millikin, Smith, Anderson, Stirling, Brooks, True and Mason, at Mr. 
Tuft's. 16. A church was gathered amounting to seven members, 
beside their pastor, the number of families in the place being about 
forty. There was a long debate in the Council, whether Mr. Morrill 
or Mr. Smith should preach ; at last, Mr. Morrill declared he would 
not preach, so he made the first prayer ; Mr. Smith, Jr. preached, 
Mr. Deane prayed before the charge, Mr. Smith gave the charge, 
Mr. Brooks gave the right hand of fellowship and Mr. Fairfield made 
the last prayer : an extraordinary fair and pleasant day. * 27. Last 
night the coldest has been this year. I preached in the forenoon. 
The harbor frozen over quite to Bangs's island ; dreadful cold going 
to meeting ; the coldest day I ever felt. 28. Last night as cold as the 
night before ; not an inch of snow fallen this month. An extraordinary 
good time for lumbering. Rode to Mrs. Frost's and spent evening. 
29. Rode to Windham and dined there. At sundown, Mr. P. 
Smith, Miss Nabby Frost, Mr. Browne and myself, set out for 
Gorham ; met several teams, and passed them with difficulty ; went 
over the place called Horse Beef, a mile and a half beyond the Fort ; 
then we had three miles and a half to go by moonshine, under great 
uncertainty about the way, and amidst a variety of paths that 
branched out on both sides. In this way we met with a mast sled by 
itself lying in the highway, which we could not pass, till with our 
united strength we had tumbled it into the snow. The night was 
one of the coldest I ever knew, and I was under sad apprehension that 
one of my toes was frozen. At length we arrived at Mr. Steward's, 

1. The ordination of Rev. Samuel Foxcroft, the first minister of New Gloucester. 
For some account of him, see note in Smith's Journal, p. 203. Mr. Smith speaks 
of their having a jolly time at this ordination, and of Mr. Longfellow's happy vein 
of good humor. 



310 dkane's diary. 

where 1 expected we should have been invited, part of us, to lodge ; 
but we were turned off with a dose of flip. The next stage was Mr. 
Lombard's, but neither he nor his wife was at home. We let the 
son understand that we came to pay his father a visit, and should be 
glad to have our horses sheltered, as they were sweaty ; to which 
he answered, they had no room where they could put them. Then 
we desired he would turn out some of the cattle to make room. I 
was so astonished at the impudence and churlishness of the answer, 
that I have almost forgotten it ; but the sense of it was, that he would 
not turn them out of his barn for the best men's horses in the world. 
I then went to Capt. Phinney's, and Mr. Smith to the Elder's. I rapt 
at the door and found nobody at home. I returned to Mr. Lombard's, 
and found that Mr. Browne had gone more than a quarter of a mile 
to water his horse, and that there was a new, well finished barn, of 
thirty feet square, entirely empty. I desired my young friend to get 
some hay laid, and went to water my horse ; but when I came to the 
place, there was no coming at the water ; then I returned, tied my 
horse, though the young man endeavored to prevent me, by saying 
that Capt. Phinney had been over to invite me to his house, and said 
he would turn out his cattle rather than not accommodate my horse. 
I then found Mr. Lombard in the house and told him my difficulties ; 
but he showed no regret, nor did he offer to send any body to water 
my horse at the well, as he might have done. Our supper was tea at 
ten o'clock, though we had drank tea before, reinforced with pea 
porridge. Mr. Browne requested a little more of the porridge, after he 
had swallowed his mess, to which the lady answered, she had no 
more in the house. The next morning, having lodged at Capt. 
Phinney's, I was up early and went to Mr. Lombard's before he arose, 
and found his wife warming up a mess of pea porridge, which she 
gave to her grandchildren to eat for breakfast, and her memory was 
so good that she called it by its name before me and Mr. Smith. She 
asserted that all her cows happened to be dry, and they had neither 
butter nor cheese in the house ; so we breakfasted on tea and johnny 
cake, without butter, and fled for our lives. 

February 7. Dined at Major Freeman's ; married Jed. Cobb to 
Reliance Paine. 16. Read through first volume Neale this week, 
(2.) Read South. 2:2. Walked with Mr. Bradbury to Joshua 



DEANe's" DIARY. 311 

Freeman's ; ' evening at Mr. Bradbury's. 28. Went to visit Mr. 
Browne in the forenoon ; he went to Joshua Knight's to preach a lecture 
in the afternoon. I spent the afternoon at Mrs. Frost's ; Mr. Fuller 
came there, lodged there ; Mr. Smith came up the next morning — 
we all dined there and then returned. Mr. Fuller lodged with me. * 

March 10. Sabbath. Mr. Fuller preached here ; Mr. Smith 
preached at New Casco. 11. Rode to New Casco, called at Mr. 

Bucknam's, lodged with Mr. Fuller, at Mrs. P -s. 13. Dined 

with Mr. Fuller ; agreed with Mr. Jones for 38,000 of bricks, at £6 
per 1000. An extraordinary warm and pleasant day. December was 
a perpetual storm ; January, continual cold ; February and March, 
hitherto, very pleasant and moderate, and no storms. 15. Wrote to 
classmate Lowell; dined at Mr. Joshua Moody's, IG. Messrs. 
Dummer and Hodge, Jr. dined here. 17. Capt. Hodge at meeting 
here. 21. Went to P. Noyes'; Han. Gooding married. 27. Dined 
at Capt. Ross's, with Messrs. Smith, Browne, Brooks. At evening, I 
married Joshua Henshaw to Sarah Clarke. 

April 1. I heard of no April fools. 11. Thursday. I preached 
at Purpoodock, and Mr. Smith baptized seven children there. Visited 
Col. Cushing. 15. Very rainy morning; dined with the Court — 
wished I had not. Mr. Powell said it is a hard case, when there is 
two of you, that we can get ne'er a one. I '11 bring my own minister 
if I can get nobody to pray with us here : he said, the minister can 
hear the bell, and he knows when he is wanted. 29. Very warm, 
H. and M. lot, 3| ; the parsonage, 3| ; the porch is 61, the steeple 62. ' 

May 2, Rainy still ; very growing season. Received of Deacon 
Cotton £3 5s. 6d. contribution. ■* 6. Bought three acres of land of 
Howell and Moody. At sundown, set sail for Boston ; ran up to Cape 
Ann by morning. 8. Heard Dr. Mayhew preach from " What hath 

1. Joshua Freeman lived at Back Cove, where Dr. Cumming now lives. 

2. Mr. Browne lived m the house now standing near Woodford's Corner, in 
Westbrook. Mr. Frost's was fii'st this side of Stroudwater ; houses still remaining. 

3. The H. and M. lot means the Howell and Moody lot, extending from Back 
street (now Congress) to Back Cove, which he afterwards purchased, and contained, 
probably, 3 3-4 acres. The figures against the porch and steeple was probably the 
height of each. He was perhaps thinking of a safe distance to place his house. 

4. This was called the Stranger's Contribution, a perquisite of their minister^ 
and continued to be taken weekly until 1802. 



312 deane's diary. 

the temple of God to do with idols." 9. Heard Mr. Adams ; dined 
with Mr. Fluker, tea at Tyng's. 10. Dined at Mr. Matliers, tea at 
Blackden's. 11. Breakfasted at Mrs. Joshua Winslow's, dined at Mr. 
Gay's. 12. Preached for Mr. Browne, and rode to Mr. Barnes', 
(Scituate.) 14. Rode to Taunton ; dined with Mrs. McKinstry, (Dr. 
McKinstry's wife, daughter of Rev. Mr. Leonard, of Plymouth.) 15. 
Rode to Berkley, lodged at sister Winslow's. 16. Rode to brother 
Fisher's and dined there, and rode home in the dark. 17. Dined at 
father's, tea at Judge Leonard's, lodged at father's. 19. Preached 
for Mr. Adams, forenoon and afternoon ; evening at Mr. Bowdoin's, 
with Mr. Woodward, and lodged with Mr. Woodward at Mr. Adam's. 

21. Rode to Cambridge and left my accounts and Allen's note with the 
Butler. Sailed at one o'clock ; becalmed ofT Cape Ann all night. 

22. Arrived at Falmouth at sunset. 27. Very hot ; began my cellar. 
29. Went a fishing with Mr. Wiswell, &c. ; rainy. 31. Easterly, 
raw wind. I married George Bishop to Mary Newman j visited 
Deacon Cobb. 

1765. 

June 6. Dined at Mrs. Frost's ; married Samuel Bradshaw to 
Rebecca Snow. Wm. Freeman drowned. ^ 8. I prayed at the funeral 
of Wm. Freeman. 12. Ordination at Woolwich ; Mr. Miller made the 
first prayer ; Mr. Brooks preached on the desert's blossoming like the 
rose; Mr. Goss, of Boston, prayed and gave the charge; Mr. Eaton 
gave the right hand, and myself the last prayer; two new members 
would have joined in the incorporation of the church, but they were 
set aside, there being six members beside them, without including the 
Pastor. ^ 13. Pleasant day. Returned to Yarmouth. I lodged at 
Mitchell's. 14. Dined at home ; in the afternoon Mr. Browne preached 
my lecture. 20. I married Reuben Clough to Meriam Dearing; 
none present but the two families, nor all of them. 27. I married 
Moses Fowler to Hannah Hamblen. 29. Thomas Sawyer died. 30. 
Sabbath. I preached in the forenoon. The two Cushings and Mr. 

1. Wm. Freeman was son of Samuel Freeman; he was a promising young 
man, 18 years old. 

2. This was the ordination of Rev. Josiah Winship, the first minister of 
Woolwich; see under same date note to Smith's Journal, p. 205. Rev. John Miller 
was from Brunswick, and has been before mentioned, as have also Messrs. Brooks 
and Eaton.- 



deane's diarv. 313 

S. Winthrop at meeting. I preached upon the evil of taking pleasure 
in the sins of other men. Charles Gushing spent the evening with me. ' 

July 1. I went to the funeral of Mr. T. Sawyer. 4. I went to 
New Casco, and married Chipman Cobb to the Widow Hall. Lodged, 
with Williams. 11. 'Raised my frame; dined 45 men. 14. I 
preached at Purpoodoc ; Mr. Coffin here ; ^ the Bishop at Windham ; 
Mr. Peter at Narraganset. 18. Went to Fast, at New Casco ; Mr. 
Fairfield began with prayer ; Mr. Brooks preached. In the afternoon 
Mr. Smith began with prayer, and I preached. 19. Went out a fishing 
with the Moodys ; came home in Marston's boat. 26. Friday. Our 
lecture ; Mr. Williams preached from these words : " Put on humble- 
ness of mind" — an excellent sermon. 28. Sabbath. Our Sacrament. I 
made two prayers ; Mr. Smith preached in the forenoon, and is to con- 
tinue so to do until the next Sacrament day, and then I am to begin, and 
so on in turns. I preached in the afternoon, and baptised the son of 
Elizabeth Reed, the servant of Deacon Cobb. We had the vote of the 
church for this, though I thought it needless. 29. Mr. Hancock arrived 
here ; he and I dined at the Sheriff's, (Moses Pearson.) 30. We dined 
at Col. Waldo's. I drank tea at Watt's, (Dr. Edward.) 31. We 
dined at Major Freeman's, and then I rode with him to New Casco. 

August 1. Went to Crotch island; got home at 11 at night, in 
company with Mr. Bradbury and wife, Mr. Thomas Smith, Mrs. Pike, 
Miss Courser, Miss Eliza Jones, Capt. Jones, Mr. Joshua Freeman 
and wife. A very warm day. 2. Dined at Mr. Moody's with Mrs. 
Blackden and her daughter. 4. Preached at North Yarmouth ; Mr. 
Brooks at Falmouth. 9. Dined at Mr. Butler's with Mrs. Blackden. 
11. Mrs. Blackden and Abby sailed in the evening. 13. My first 
chimney began. 14. Mr Young died. Dined at Mr. Codman's. 
16. Bought 3000 shingles of Mr. Epes, wanting ten. 18. Mr. J. 
Browne preached both parts of the day. I baptised 6 children. 19. 
Mr. Browne dined at Wyer's. (Rev. John Browne, of Haverhill, 

1. Wm. and Charles were settled m Dresden, Me.; Wm. the first lawyer, and 
Charles the first Clerk of the Courts in Lmcoln Co. Wm. was afterwards Jud^e 
of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

2. Rev. Paul Coffin, of Buxton, then called Narraganset, No. 1. He graduated 
at H. C, 1759; was ordained in Buxton, March 16, 1763; the ministers who 
attended were obliged to travel on snow shoes, on account of the depth of snow. 
He continued the able and faithful minister and kind pastor of his people for more 
thaa 60 years, and died June 6, 1821, aged 84. 

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314 deane's wart. 

father of Rev. Thos.) 20. All the ministers dined at Mr. Smith's. 
21. Mr. Browne's instalment; Mr. Shute made the first prayer; Mr, 
John Browne preached ; Mr. Morrill prayed before the charge ; Mr. 
Hitchcock gave the right hand of Fellowship ; Mr. Fairfield made the 
last prayer. I did not go to the ordination, nor "Mr. Smith, nor any of 
the church members.* 22. Mr. Forster, Mr. Foxcroftand Mr. Williams 
dined with me. 24. Langdon against Sandeman arrived." 2o. Sab- 
bath. Mr. Smith preached in the forenoon from these words : " by so 
much was Jesus made the surety of a better Testament." Heb. 7, 22. 
29. News came of Marston's daughter's death. 

Sejitember 1. Mr. Smith forenoon, from buried by baptism, &c. 
Mr. Samuel Green baptised. 5. Mr. Hemenway came to town. (Dr. 
Hemenway, of Wells.) 6. Mr, Hemenway preached my lecture, from 
" God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the Saints, and to be 
held in reverence of all that are about him." 8. Preached at Wells. 
Mr. Hemenway preached for me ; our Sacrament day. 9. Rode to 

1. This indicates more feeling on the part of the 1st Parish than was supposed 
to exist. The first movement in the formation of this new society arose from 
opposition to Mr. Smith. Mr. Browne first came here m October, 1764, to preach 
at Stroudwater, ami again in Kovomber. On the last occasion, Nov. 25, Mr. Smith 
remarks in his Journal with much feeling — "Our Sabbath frolickers ride to hear 
Mr. Browne, as they used to Wiswell." But afterwards, in April, 1765, eleven of 
the male members of the 1st Church, and such of their wives as belonged to the church, 
were dismissed for the formation of a new Church: their names will be found in a 
note to Mr. Smith's Journal of that date. It is evident that the new Society was 
regarded with some hostility, as an opposition to the parent stock. Of the clergy- 
men who officiated at the installation, Daniel Shute was settled in Hingham ; he 
graduated at H. C, 1743, and died 1802, aged 80. John Browne was the father 
of the minister installed; he was born in Brighton, Ms., graduated H. C, 1714, and 
was settled in Haverhill, Mass. His wife was daughter of Roland Cotton, by whom 
he had four sons, all educated at Cambridge, and three daughters; one married 
John Chipman, of Marblehead, another Rev. Edward Brooks, of North Yarmouth. 
Gad Hitchcock was the minister of Pembroke, Mass. He graduated at H. C, 
1743, and died 1803, aged 85. Mr. Morrill was from Biddeford, and Mr. Fairfield 
from Saco, and have both been before mentioned. Mr. Browne was born in Haverhill, 
in 1733, graduated at H. C, 1752, settled in Marshfield, September 5, 1754; 
married widow Lydia Hammond, of Marshfield, Feb. 7, 1763; she died Oct. 1805, 
leavin" several children, two of whom, Thomas and Wm., were our fellow citizens. 
2. Dr. Langdon, of Portsmouth, in 1765, published " An impartial examination 
of R. Sandeman's Letters on Theron and Aspasio," which is the work referred te-. 
A number of Sandem.aniaus had settled at Portsmouth. 



deane's diary. 315 

Newbury ; 8s. 6d. at Ingraham's, 4s. 6d. the ferry, 9s. 3d. at Clark's. 
10. Rode to Cambridge, lis. 3d. at Hale's, 2s. at Norwood's ; warm 
day. 26. Set out from Cambridge for Casco, with Mr. Williams ; 
lodged at Kingston, Abbot's. 27. Rode to Littlefield's, dined at 
Hanson's, Cocheco. 28. Rode to Falmouth, dined at Mr. Fairfield's. 

October 2. Went to Capt. Waite's island.' 4. Went to visit Mrs, 
Done. Paid Mr. Smith Cobb £54. Received of Deacon Cotton, for 
contribution, £6, 7s. 6d. Paid Mr. Samuel Moody £19 for clapboards. 
Paid Col. Preble £34 for rum and oil. 13. I preached in the forenoon ; 
Mr. Smith preached from, " I pray not that thou wouldsJ take them 
out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them from the evil." 14. 
Paid Mr. Lowell two Johannes, which, with two dollars paid before, 
make £40. 10s. 15. Court at Falmouth ; I prayed with them. 26. 
Funeral of Mr. Thrasher. 

November 5, I married Abigail Waite to Thomas Minot. ^ 6. 
Went to ordination at New Casco ; Mr. Forster made the first prayer ; 
Mr. Adams preached from, " I keep under my body and bring it into 
subjection, lest," &c. Mr. P. T. Smith prayed before the charge, 
Mr. Townsend gave the charge, Mr. Browne the right hand of Fellow- 
ship, and Mr. Foxcroft made the last prayer. ^ 10. Preached at 

1. This is now called Peak's Island; John Waite owned a portion of it, and 
resided there at the time referred to. This Island has borne various names, chiefly 
from its successive proprietors. Cleeves, the first settler, called it Pond Island, but 
in a conveyance of it to his son-in-law, Michael Mitton, he named it Michael's 
Island. It afterwards went, successively, by the name of Munjoy, Palmer, Peak, 
and is a fine island about two miles long. 

2. Abigail Waite was daughter of Capt. John Waite, who lived partly on the 
Island, and whose town house was on Fore street, fronting the bay, near the Port- 
land Co.'s works. He was a packetmaster; came from Newbury, and died in 17<>9. 
Thomas Minot was son of John Minot, of Brunswick, and was born there in 1740. 
He lived awhile m Brunswick, and then moved to Falmouth, where some of his 
descendants are now living. His son Stephen is living at Bowdom, aged about 80. 
John, the father of Thomas, was son of Stephen, a merchant in Boston, and a 
large proprietor in Brunswick; he married Hannah Bradstreet, of Reading, by whom 
he had five children, three daughters and two sons. His eldest daughter married 
Rev. John Wiswell, of Falmouth, 1761. 

3. The ordination of Rev. Ebenezer WUliams ; see note to Mr. Smith's Journal, 
same date, p. 206. Jacob Forster, who made the prayer, was settled in Berwick.- 
he graduated at H. C, 1754, and was settled in Berwick, 1756. The meeting- 
house was situated on the flat land near Skitterygusget Creek, about a mile soaik 
'of the present meeting-house. 



316 deane's diary. 

Purpoodoc ; Mr. Townsend preached here, Mr. Brooks here in the 
evening. Mr. Fuller put in here. 

December 15. I preached in the forenoon. The hoard of singers 
went into the gallery, 16 in number. ' Mr. Smith preached on the 
Trinity, from " there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, 
the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one." 18. 
Purrington cast away ; Daniel Thomes and Jonathan Symmonds 
drowned, and a man that belonged to Cape Porpus. Vessel and cargo 
all lost, supposed to be worth £12,000 ; three quarters J. Waite's, and 
one quarter the master's. 22. I preached in the forenoon, Mr. Smith 
in the afternoon, on the " three that bear witness in the earth, the 
spirit, the water, and the blood." 23. News came of Joseph Cox's 
death. (He married Mary Bailey, in 1749.) 30. Dined at Mr. 
Codman's; rode to Back Cove. A negro belonging to Andrew 
Simonton, and a negro belonging to Wheeler Riggs, were fishing in 
an open boat off Cape Elizabeth, and towards night, the wind coming 
on fresh, blew them off to sea ; and the night being excessively cold, 
it is not doubted but they perished. 31. I went to the singing 
meeting at Mr, Freeman's school-house. 

1766. 

January 1. An extraordinary cold morning ; harbor skimmed over 
with ice, A snow storm began in the afternoon, which lasted till late 
in the evening of next day. The year comes in like a lion. In 1766, 
there is no remarkable event expected, on account of the number of 
the year. The Justices met at Freeman's, and resolved to go on with 
the Courts as heretofore, though Stamps are not to be had. 2. I 
taught Mr. Smith this day the play with battledoor and shuttlecock, 
with which he seems much pleased. I found it advantageous to play 
before dinner, but being tempted to engage after dinner also, I soon 
found myself excessively worried, which I did not recover that day. 
3. Col. Powell dined here ; I rode with him to Back Cove, and visited 
at Mrs. Blake's, Briggs's, Bradshaw's, Snow's, Sawyer's ; a pleasant 
afternoon. 5. Extremely cold, harbor frozen up. I preached in the 
forenoon ; Mr. Smith preached upon redeeming the time, for the days 
are evil, showing what time is, how to be redeemed, and why to be 
redeemed. 9. Deacon Cotton paid £6. 16s. 7d. for the contribution 

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Sarah Brackett was married by Mr. Smith.* 11. A very great rain 
and thaw : Dr. Coffin died.' 12. Sabbath. I preached in the forenoon , 
on confession ; Mr Smith preached in the afternoon, on redeeming the 
time. 13. News came of the Duke of Cumberland's death, and of 
the death of the Duchess of Portland. 14. Dr. Coffin buried. 15. 
I married Moses Whitney to Priscilla Bumell. 19. I preached both 
parts of the day on mortality ; Mr. Smith preached at Capt. Ilsley's. => 
21. N. Gookin came here and brought news of Meservey's being 
dragged through the streets by the mob, and resigning his destestable 
commission, &c. "* 23. A small earthquake just before day. 25. A 
mob arose and burnt some stamped clearances. * 28. I married Wm. 
Knight to Ann Ayres. 30. No service at church to-day. 

At the close of this month is the following entry : paper for two 
looms and the entry, £40 ; the new chaise, £180 ; coarse thread 

stockings, £ ; for a horse to Dedham, £2. 5. ; three night's horse 

keeping at Boston, £1. 10. ; two ferriages with horse, 4s ; one ferriage 
&c., 5s. ; horse keeping at the Steward's, £3. 12. 6. ; journey to Norton, 
£1. 10. ; paid for the chaise, £160; wig, £16. 17. 6. ; handkerchief, 
£1. 7. ; chaise hire to Norton, £4. 10. ; arms on my chaise, £1. 2. 6.; 
to the barber's about £1; expenses to Newbury, £1. 7.; from 
Newbury to Falmouth, £3. 3. 9. 

N. B. The same almanac which contains the leaves on which the 
above memoranda are made, puts down the value of coins in 
Massachusetts currency as follows ; Guinea, 28s. ; English shilling, 
Is. 4.; Milled dollar, 6s. 

1. She was a daughter of Capt. Anthony Brackett, and was married to Joshua 
Fabyan, of Gorham. 

2. Some notice of Dr. Coffin will be found in a note to Smith's Journal, page 
207. 

3. Capt. Isaac Ilsley's, at Back Cove. 

4. This took place in Portsmouth, N. H. George Meserve, son of Col. Meserve, 
who died at the seige of Louisburg, was appointed Commissioner of Stamps for 
New Hampshire, but was not allowed by the people to act under it; his commission 
was sent back to the Stamp Office in London. (Belk. N. H.) 

5. A brig had arrived in our harbor on that day from Halifax, with a parcel of 
these papers, and lodged them in the Custom House; this gave rise to this emeutc. 
The papers were demanded by a body of the people, who marched to the Custom 
House, and when they received them, they were borne in triumph through the 
village, and then burnt amidst the shouts of a great crowd, (Bost. Eve. Gaz., Feb, 
3, 1766.) 



318 deane's diary. 

February 2. I preached in the afternoon ; excessively cold ; the 
water for baptism froze so that I could hardly break it with my 
fingers, * 4. Visited Samuel Bucknam, on Cousin's island, (North 
Yarmouth.) 11. Sent two dollars and a 50c. piece by Mr. Atkins to 
get a dozen of Psalm books. 21. Waited on Miss E. P. to New 
Casco and North Yarmouth ; ^ fine weather. 22. Dined at Mr. 
Brook's, tea at J. Gray's. 23. I preached at Yarmouth, Mr. Brooks 
at Falmouth ; we spent the evening at Madam Loring's. 

March 2. I preached in the forenoon on Psalmody. 10. Waited on 
Miss. E. P. to Windham. 11. Returned. Heard the news of Adam 
Gordon's being appointed our Governor, ^ 14, The most violent storm 
that ever was known, with the wind at N. W. Col. Preble's barn 
blew down, and Dr. Watt's. 23, Our Sacrament — Mr. Smith admin- 
istered the bread, and made two prayers; I the cup, and made one 
prayer. A very snowy day. 24, Fine north-west wind for grinding 
at the wind mill, * 27. Called at Mr, Joshua Freeman's. Waited on 
Miss E, P, to Mr. Browne's ; dined there with Mr. Bradbury and 
wife. I preached Mr. Browne's lecture, from "it is good to be 
zealously affected in a good thing," Mr, Epes at Mr, Browne's in 
the evening. Mr. Browne paid for a Psalm book; Mr. Rand, the 
baker, owes for one ; Mr, Atkins for another. 

April 1. I married Obadiah Sawyer to Anna Snow. Waited on 
Miss E, P. to Major Berry's, 3. My wedding ; none present but 
relations. 6, Sabbath. Appeared in public ; I preached in the after- 
noon, from " He hath appointed a day," &c, 13, Baptised Thomas, 
son of Aaron Cole. 15, Prayed and dined with the Court. 20. I 
preached in the afternoon, and baptised John, son of Wanton Stover. 

May 15. I planted four rows rough coats — cut the lower side ; 
next them, one row whole ; next, two rows white potatoes, cut, then 

1, Those who enjoy the comforts of our well warmed churches, have no idea of 
the suffering which the worshippers of the early time here endured. The old church 
was of wood, full of windows, which rattled in the wintry wind, and through wlrich 
currents of air streamed in all directions. The first attempt to warm the meeting 
house of the 1st Parish was made near the close of Dr, Deane's ministry, 

2, Doubtless Miss Eunice Pearson, to whom he was soon after married, 

3, Thi^ was a false rumor; Bernard continued to be Governor until 1769, when 
he was succeeded by Gen. Gage, 

4, This mill stood at the corner of School and Congress streets, where the 
Hussey house now stands. 



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one row whole ; on the other side, one row mouse ditto, cut ; next, 
cue row ditto, whole — one in a hill ; next, one row ditto one in a hill ; 
next, two rows of white ones, cut. 17. Tate came in with news of 
the Stamp Act repealed. 19. Rejoicing on account of the Stamp Act 
repealed. 20. Illumination on the same occasion. 27. Made the 
fence round my land. 29. I married Paul Ellis to Mary Noyes, 
30. The apple trees all in blossom ; a fine growing season. 

Ju7ie 2. Set sail for Boston — very sea-sick. 8, I preached fore- 
noon at Mr. Cooper's ; dined with him, and attended his meeting in 
the afternoon. 20. Spent the day at Cambridge ; visited the Presi= 
dent, Mr. Appleton, Mr. Foxcroft, Col. Brattle, Mr. Winthrop, Mr, 
Hancock, Mr. Howard, the library. Lodged at Mr. Foxcroft's. 
(Returned 27th.) 29. I preached in the afternoon on the righteousness 
of God. Lieut. Governor (Hutchinson), Mr. Oliver, Mr. Goffe, Mr, 
Winthrop and Mr. Bowdoin, at meeting. ' 

July 9. Dr. Mayhew died to-day. ^ 17. Went to Bangs's Island 
with Mr. Browne, Mr. Titcomb, Mr. Bradbury, and their wives, and 
Capt. Bradbury, and Thomas Smith and his wife. Shower in the 
afternoon ; pleasant day on the whole. 24. Thanksgiving on account 
of the repeal of the Stamp Act. I carried on the whole exercise of 
the day, being two hours and a quarter long. Mr. Smith preached 
for his son at Windham. 25. Clarke Linnisken stood in the pillory ; 
a great concourse of people to see the sight. Col. Powell in tovra ; 
came to wait on Mr. Fluker, and Col. Waldo, v/ho went to Yarmouth 
to keep Thanksgiving, knowing that there would be no preaching 
there. Great men are not always wise nor always good. 

August 6. Dined at Capt. Ross's with Mons. Lartegue and 
my pupil Freeman. 7. Mr. E. Ilsley's sugar seized ; a mob at 
evening which removed and dispersed it. ^ 12. The Rev. Mr. Smith 

1. They were here attending upon the Supreme Court, which was then in 
session. Lieut. Gov. Hutchinson was Chief Justice, and Peter Oliver one of the 
Associates. The other Judges were Benjamm Lynde and John Gushing. 

2. Dr. Jona. Mayhew, pastor of the West Church in Boston, aged 45, one of 
the most learned, liberal and catholic clergyman of his day: many of his discourses 
were published, which indicate high classical attainments, and superior powers of 
mind. He graduated at H. C, 1744, and was settled in 1747. 

3. The sugar was seized for a breach of the Revenue Act. Several cargoes 
had been seized in Boston. The Act had recently been made, and its penalties 
were rigidly enforced. The mob attacked the house of the Comptroller, where the 



320 deane's diary, 

married by his son to Mrs, Wendell. 17. I made a whole sermon 
yesterday in the afternoon and this morning. The Rev. Mr. Smith 
kept Sabbath at Windham. 22. Moved from Capt. Pearson's 
into my own house. 25. Wendell and others came in ; the man-of- 
war fired at them ; the bullet passed by the shrouds over their heads. 

Septemher 7. Sabbath. I preached in the afternoon, and made the 
exercise two hours long, wanting five minutes. Mr. Checkley at our 
meeting, and Mr. Jacob Wendell. (Probably son of Mrs. Smith.) 
19. Attended the funeral of H. Moody's child. 23. Funeral of 
Tobey's son, who was drowned. 

October 2. Went to Bangs's Island, and married Stephen Fletcher 
to Lydia Whitler. 9. I married Edward Thomes to Patience 
Whitney, at the house of widow Thomes, magna comitante caterva. 
12. I preached both parts of the day. Mr. Smith preached in 
Purpoodock meeting-house, at the request of Mr. Clarke, Avho held 
forth at Scarborough. 14. Dr. Coffin dined here, with the Powells. 
1 5. Dined at Mr. Bradbury's, with the Powells ; attended the funeral 
of Tobey's child, which was scalded to death. 

November 1. Mr. Chandler and his delegate lodged at Capt. Pear- 
son's. 2. Mrs. Pearson died about 9 o'clock in the morning ; ' Mr. 
Chandler preached forenoon and afternoon, and lodged at my house. 
3. Mr. Hale called here ; the ministers set off" for home. ^ 13. I 
married David Stickney, Jr. to Esther Clough. 25. The Justices 
met to take the evidence relative to Mr. Hope's estate. 

December 16. Mr. Josiah Berry married to Miss Thankful Butler, 
by the Rev. Mr. Smith. 22. Evening at Capt. Gooding's. He told 
me that some years ago an earwig got into his right ear, which made 
a most stunning noise, louder than the hardest thunder ; and that it 
was driven out by blowing tobacco smoke into the opposite ear. 
25. 1 married Joseph Lovitt to Mary Marston. 2S. Baptised John, 
son of widow Huston. 

Collector then was, and kept them employed, while others were removing the 
property from the custody of the government. Gov. Bernard offered a reward of 
.£50 for the discovery of the rioters. 

1. Mrs. Pearson was the wife of Moses Pearson, daughter of Wm. Titcomb,of 
Newbury, and sister of Col. Moses Titcomb, who was killed in the battle at Lake 
George, Sept. 8, 1755. She was born in 1693. 

2. This assemblage of ministers was on occasion of a council at North 
Yarmouth, to hear the complaints of his people against Mr, Brooks. Mr, Brooks 



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17G7. 

January 8. Mr. Smith married Sweat to Mehitable Gooding. 

25. I preached at Capt. Blake's, Back Cove ; there were about two 
hundred people. Mr. Smith preached both parts of the day at home. 

26. I married Smith to Nabby Cox. 29. Mr. Foxcroft dined here ; 
I lent him Butler's Analogy. Three sleighs went to Pearsontown. 
31. The Pearsontown frolickers returned. 

February 3. I set out 20 minutes after 8, in company with Capt. 
Jones and wife, Mrs. Bradbury and Mrs. T. Smith, Mr. Titcomb and 
Mrs. Wise, Capt. Cox and wife, and arrived at Shaw's, in Pearson- 
town, at half after one o'clock : we visited the pond in the afternoon ; 
lodged at G. Freeman's ; had a lecture at R. Freeman's, at 10 o'clock 
on Wednesday, 4th ; dined there ; set out at 1 o'clock — got home at 
6. Twenty houses burned in Boston last night. Mrs. Eben'r Cobb 
died last night. 17. Capt. Ross had his cancer cut out. 19. 
Mr. Smith married Capt. Paine (Jonathan) to Dorcas Cox. 

March 6. Wrote to desire uncle Dwight to get the money or take 
a note of Ireland, and that there was not any unclaimed land at 
New Meadows. Wrote Mr. Dana, and sent him a power of attorney 
by Mr. S. Freeman, to whom I gave a letter of introduction to Mr, 
Winthrop. 12. I married Edward Ross to Margaret Roberts. 18. 
The anniversary of the repeal of the Stamp Act kept, by ringing the 
bell in the afternoon and evening, firing several small arms, and 
drinking several loyal healths in the evening. 

April 2. Joanna Ingersoll died. 12, Mr. Smith married Roberts 
to Capt. Howell's maid. 23. Pollard drowned. I married John 
Barbour to Mary Noyes, 

May 4. I planted short beans, sowed cauliflowers and apple seeds, 
being increase of the moon. 5, I planted corn and potatoes, increase 
of the moon, 8, The sessions finished, being third week; too much 
disputing at law, 17, Mr, Smith preached at Clarke's meeting- 
house, he being at Black Point, helping Pearson, who is sick, 24. 

was not considered sufficiently orthodox for the times, and was finally dismissed 
in 1768. The clergymen who attended the council referred to by Dr. Deane, 
were Moses Hale, of Newbury, H. C, 1734; Samuel Chandler, of Gloucester, 
H. C, 1735; Samuel Langdon of Portsmouth, afterwards President of H. C; 
Benj. Stevens, of Kittery, H. C, 1740; Samuel Lancton, of York, settled there in 
1754, and died in 1794; and Mr. Morrill, of Biddcford. 
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322 beane's diary. 

Baptised Rian's child Augustus ; propounded Mrs. Plumer. 25, Mr. 
Smith married Henry Wheeler to Mary Lane. 31. The apple trees 
full in the blossom. 

Ju7ie 1, I married Randal to Meriam Sawyer. 4, Violent thunder 
and lightning ; Mrs. Gooding's house was struck, and two men, Mr. 
Curtis Chute, of Windham, and Joseph Young of this place, Avere 
instantly struck dead, I married Stephen Hart to Betty Thomes. 
5. Mr. Smith and I attended the funeral of Curtis Chute ; Joseph 
Young was buried Church fashion ; a very warm day. 7. Full 
meeting ; people came more seasonably than common, and were more 
than commonly attentive. 10. I married Jonathan Strout to Lydia 
Cromwell. Dined at Mr. Bradbury's, with family. 23. I prayed 
with the Court and dined with them. 24. Messrs. Cushing, Oliver 
and Trowbridge, at tea. 26. The Court dissolved ; no regular Court 
held for want of jurymen from the other county. 29. 1 was repeat- 
edly applied to to marry R. Godson to Betty Ilsley, and repeatedly 
refused. The Rev. H. Smith here, and Burnam ; the latter urged 
me to ask the former to preach, which I refused to do. * Mr. Smith 
married Betty Ilsley to Richard Godson. 

July 19. I married David Bradish to Abigail Merrill. 27. 1 
erected electrical points, S. W. 30. Dr. Russell and lady, and her 
sister, lodged here. 

October 8. Married Samuel Polin to Betty Drinky. 12. Smith, 
of Haverhill, preached at Burnham's. 19. Rode to Saco, dined 
there, 5s. 6d. to Wells, lodged at Mr. Hemenway's. 20. Rode to 
York, dined at Mr. Lyman's, ferry 4s. 6d., lodged at Dr. Langdon's. 
21. Rainy forenoon ; dined at Dr. Langdon's, rode to Newbury, 3s. 6d. 
23. Breakfasted Smith's, Ipswich, 5s., dined at Epes, Esq., tea and 
lodging at the Steward's. (Returned Nov. 14.) 

November 21. I made a whole sermon. (Such entries are not 
uncommon.) 23. I married Joseph Noyes to Mary Stickney. 
30. Went to Peak's Island ; dined there, and married William Lunt to 
Mary Lowell, and spent the evening Avith Capt. Waite, in his own 
house. 

December 3. Thanksgiving ; I preached. I married David Stirrat 

1. Hezekiah Smith was a respectable Baptist preacher, settled in Haverhill Ms. 
He made the earliest movement in behalf of the Baptists in this State. He was a 
man of fine personal appearance, a full, sonorous voice, and a captivating address. 



deaiNk's diary. 323 

to Nancy Anderson. 17. I married John Collin to Mary Hans. 
29. Attended D. Cobham's funeral. 

1768. 
January 7. I married Benjamin Lunt to Mercy Brackett. ' 
10. I preached both services, on the Redemption ; Mr. Smith at Back 
Cove. Col. Moulton came here. 11. Col. Moulton, Capt. Pearson 
and Mr. Titcomb dined here. 15. Read Gardner and Flagg's 
dispute. 23. Rode to New Casco, lodged at Mr, Jabez Jones'. 

29. A team of oxen came in from Back Cove to break the ways. 

30. Attended the funeral of Robert Moore. 

March \. Funeral of Mrs. Young's child. 22. Town meeting; 
Capt. Milk, Wm. Slemmons and Deacon Merrill, chosen Selectmen ; 
Mr. Longfellow, Town Clerk; Jones, Stephen Waite, Bucknam, 
Assessors. 24. Read Mr. Hutchinson's answer to Mr. Tucker, 

April 14. Our Fast ; Mr. S. preached forenoon, from " Break oft 
thy sins by righteousness," &c. 

May 24. I attended the funeral of Mrs. Lamb. 

June 28. Court sat, Superior ; Mr. Smith opened with prayer. 
29. I dined with the Court. 

July 1, Mr. Chipman died." 2. Nath'l IngersoU's daughter mar- 
ried this week. 3. The Court at meeting ; very warm. 11, Married 
Josiah Parker. 13. Mr. Thatcher married. ^ 

August 2. Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher dined here. 14. Married Eliz. 
Hopkins to John James. 

September 13. Set out for Boston. 18. Preached in the forenoon 
for Mr. Howard, in the afternoon for Dr. Elliot. 27. Spent the day 
in Boston, dined at Blackden's, supped at the Miss Codmans, lodged 
at the Steward's. 28. Breakfasted at Judge Foxcroft's, dined at Mr. 
SeAvall's. 

October 3. Dined at Mr. Lowell's (Newbury), afternoon at Mr. 
Gary's. 4. Came home on board Capt. Bradbury, in eight hours from 

1. She was daughter of Joshua Brackett and Esther Cox. Joshua Brackett 
was son of Zachariah, was born m Falmouth, June 7, 1723, and died in 
Westbrook, 1816 ; Esther, liis wife, was daughter of John Cox, the " Old Ranger," 
who lived near Robison's wharf. 

2. John Chipman of Marblehead, a distinguished lawyer, attending Court here 
See note to Mr. Smith's Journal, page 213. 

3. Probably Rev. Josi:)!) Thatcher, of G'orhuin, 



3'24 deane's diary. 

the Bar to Capt. Pearson's wharf. 15. Col. Powell got home, with his 
new wife. Col. Bayley came. 18. Our Inferior Court ; I prayed 
thereat. 26. Mr. Tompson ordained here for Pearsontown ; the 
Churches of York 2nd Parish, Dunstan, Narraganset (Buxton), 
Gorham, Windham, Falmouth 1st, 2nd and 3rd Parishes ; Mr. Elvins ' 
and Mr. CofRn^ not here, but sent their delegates. Mr. Williams 
made the first prayer, Mr. Browne preached, Mr. Smith gave the 
charge, Mr. Foxcroft prayed before the charge, Mr, Smith, Jr. gave 
the right hand, I made the last prayer : the ceremony was begun and 
concluded with anthems. Smith, Jr., Foxcroft, Browne, Williams, 
and I and Thatcher, agreed to make it a rule for the future, for the 
oldest to give the charge ; the next, pray before it ; next, the right 
hand ; the next, the first prayer ; the next, the last prayer. ^ 29. Dr. 
Langdon lodged here ; Mr. Morrill went home ; Mr. Stevens ^ at New 
Casco ; Mr. Adams at Mr. Browne's ; Messrs. Chandler, Lancton and 
Hale remained at Yarmouth. * 30. The Dr. (Langdon) ^ preached in 
the forenoon, from Isaiah XXVIL, xi. " For it is a people of no under- 
standing ; therefore he that made them will have no mercy on them, 
and he that formed them will show them no favor." 1. The wicked 
are without understanding. 2. That being so, is to be attributed to 
themselves. 3. If they continue without understanding, they shall 

1. Of Dunstan. 2. Buxton. 

3. Rev. Jolm Tompson's ordination; for some account of this, see note to Mr. 
Smith's Journal, page 214. 

4. Rev. Benjamin Stevens settled at Kittery in 1751, and continued there 40 
years. His wife was daughter of Judge Trowbridge; his only daughter married 
Rev. Dr. Buckminster, of Portsmouth, and was mother of Rev. Jos. Stevens 
Buclvminster, of Brattle street church, Boston. 

5. This great gathering of the clergy was for the purpose of holding a council 
at North Yarmouth, to settle difficulties between Mr. Brooks and his people. After 
deliberation, they recommended a separation, which was acceded to, and Mr. Brooks 
left them, after a ministry of five years. The Rev. Mr. Shepley, the late worthy 
minister of North Yarmouth, whose sketches of that town are every way worthy of 
credit, for accuracy and good judgment, says, in regard to Mr. Brooks' dismissal: 
"The majority were dissatisfied with Mr. Brooks' doctrinal views. Mean time a 
large minority were strongly attached to then- minister, and utterly unreconciled to 
his leaving them ; and for a time the disruption of the congregation seemed to be a 
probable event." 

6. Dr. Langdon was settled in Portsmouth, and was President of H. C. from 
1774 to 1780. He graduated in 1740, and died in 1797. 



deane's diary. 325 

be destroyed. In the afternoon, from Jeremiah IX., xxiii. " Let not 
the wise man glory in his wisdom," &c. Mr. Penhallow here, with 
Dr. Langdon. 

Noveviber 3. The Council dispersed from North Yarmouth. 6. I 
prayed at the funeral of I. Bradbury. 7. Mrs. Brooks went forward 
towards Boston. 14. Married Abijah to Hannah Thomes. 

24. Capt. Ross died half after three. ' 27. 1 married Moses Rodgers 
to Abigail Thomes. 28. Capt. Ross's funeral ; bearers, Col. Powell, 
Major Freeman, Col. Waldo, Brigadier Preble, Mr, Longfellow, Mr. 
Savage ; bad travelling, small procession. 

December 7. 1 Avas sent for to Deacon Cotton at 9 o'clock. 
8. Deacon Cotton died this morning. ' 10. Deacon Cotton buried ; 
bearers, Major Freeman, Justice Pearson, Justice Longfellow, Capt. 
Gooding, Deacon Cobb, Capt. Jones, 

1769. 

January 1. I married Daniel Hutchinson to Jane Noyes ; Mr. 
Smith married Noyes to Thomes. 18. Mr. Butler's child died.=* 

25. Back Cove and Fore river both frozen over— being the first time 
this winter. 29. Mr. Moody preached for me both parts of the day. 
Mr. Smith at Back Cove. 

March 23. Funeral of Capt. Sweetsir,-* (William.) 24. Our 
lecture ; I preached in my turn ; two Deacons chosen. The Church 
desired that the Scriptures may be read in public. * 

April 2. Marked contribution began ; full meeting, but bad 
travelling. 18. Court sat. I excused myself from praying with 
them ; they sent for Mr. Smith, and he was not at home. 

May 8. Married Peter Combes to Bash. Berry. 19. I prayed at 
the funeral of Jos. Barbour's child. 20. Mrs. Smith and the Doctor 
set sail for Boston, with Miss Polly Fox. 

1. Capt. Alexander Ross, aged 59. See notes to Mr. Smith's Journal, 1753 
and 176S, pages 152, 215. 

2. For notice of Deacon Cotton, see note to Mr. Smith's Journal under same 
date, page 215. 

3. Nancy, daughter of John Butler, whose wife was Nancy Codman, sister to 
Richard Codman. She was 8 years old. 

4. Wm. Sweetsir married Jane Wyman, 1755; he was 37 years old when he 
died. 

5. Nath'l G. Moody and Benj. Titcomb were chosen the deacons ; the reading of 
the Scriptures as part of the Sabbath exercises, were now, for the first time, introduced. 



326 ueane's diary. 

June 3. Venus wholly within the sun's disk, 2h. 45m. 19. 
Attended funeral of Weeks. (William, Jr. aged 18.) 

July 6. I dined with the Court. Roberts tried for robbery in the 
meeting-house, and acquitted. I married Abraham Stevens to 
Susannah Whitne3\ 7. My case with Brackett tried. ' 10. I prayed 
at the funeral of Mrs. Ryan. ^ 12. Went to Windham with Judges 
Oliver and Trowbridge — dined at Mr. T. Smith's farm-house. 17. I 
took possession of the parsonage, in presence of the Sheriff, Capt. 
Jones and Mr. Bradbury, James and Joseph Titcomb. 27. I assisted 
at a Fast in North Yarmouth ; Mr. Williams prayed, and Mr. Smith 
preached in the forenoon ; Mr. Peter prayed, and I preached in the 
afternoon ; we lodged at Mr. Williams' — Mr. Foxcroft there. 

August 20. Comet began to appear this week, near the seven stars. 
SO. Sat up till 12 o'clock to see the comet; it rose but little before 
11 o'clock. 31. I married John Graves, of Topsham, to Sarah 
Boynton, of Falmouth. 

September 6. Sent for to Mrs. Milk, thought to be dying. 7. I 
married Moses Polin ^ to Dorcas Fly. 8. Mrs. Milk buried ; * very 
rainy. 

October 2. Mrs. Randall buried. 10. Col. Tyng's house raised. 
(Comer of Franklin and Middle streets.) 15. Mr. Prince preached 
all day, and achieved pretty well. 17. A considerable earthquake at 
fifteen minutes past 12. 26. Comet appeared in the west. 29. Our 
Sacrament ; it should have been last Sabbath, but was forgot. 

November 3. Capt. Waite died in the night. * 7. Capt. Waite's 
funeral ; Freeman, Longfellow, Freeman, Stickney, Mayo and Jones, 
bearers. 9. We attended the funeral of Mr. Savage's child ; sixteen 
chaises in procession ; child two years old. 10. Went to James 

1. This was for the parsonage lot near Stroudwater, which was claimed by 
Anthony Brackett, and was decided in favor of the Parish. 

2. Wife of Augustus Ryan, aged 31 ; her maiden name was Sarah Morse; she 
was married in 1758. 

3. The name is now written Poland. 

4 Slae was the wife of deacon James Milk, and was 58 years old. 

5. John Waite, aged 71; see page 117. 'J'here is a hltlc discrepancy in the 
statements of his age; Dr. Deane puts hhn down at 71; the record on his grave- 
stone is "in his CSth year." 



deane's diary. 327 

Cobb's — found him dead.' 14. I attended the funeral of Mrs. 
Webb, at J. Noyes'. 22. Pearson Jones and Samuel Parkman dined 
here. I engaged Parkman to buy me several things in Boston. 

Decemher 6. Council met at North Yarmouth. S. Mr. Gilman 
ordained at Yarmouth. Mr. Lyman prayed ; Mr. McClintock preached ; 
Mr. Morrill prayed and delivered the charge ; Mr. Eaton right hand.* 
12. I married Job Anderson to Sarah Proctor. 15. Joseph Barbour's 
child scalded. 16. Barbour's child died. 22. I sent by Jedediah 
Cobb, to Samuel Parkman, a Johanna and a pistareen, with orders to 
buy me a wig, and pay himself the commissions, and £13. 12. 3. which 
I owed him. 28. Received my new buck-skin breeches by Mr. Wyer. 
31. Mrs. Freeman died about 6 o'clock. (Patience, wife of Joshua 
Freeman, aged 61.) 

1770. 

- January 10. Mr. Moses Browne was brought to town with a 

broken leg. 17. Rode to Joshua Freeman's, (Back Cove) carried my 

wife behind me. 19. A man came from Hog Island on the ice. 21, 

People walked on the ice to Purpoodoc. 

February 8. A storm of snow; I went to Presumpscot, and 
married Adam Barbour to Betty Knight. 10. I made a whole sermon 
to-day, from 10 to 7 1-2 o'clock in the evening. 11. Four Baptisms. 
This is the fourth Sabbath in which there has been no note for 
prayers for any sick person. 16. Got two lbs. tobacco. 18. Capt. 
Colson sailed, and carried his wife. ° No notes for prayers these five 
Sabbaths. 28. I read one volume of the Vicar of Wakefield. I had a 
bad head ache, and cured it by holding my feet in hot water. 

March 21. The President to be installed to day. "* 27. We dined 
at Mr. John Cock's, on wild goose. 

1. James Cobb lived first on the Neck, then at Westbrook; he was son of Deacon 
Cobb, and was born at Manchester, July 7, 1723. In 1749, he married Abigail 
Nason, by whom he had two sons, James and Jonathan, and four daughters. 

2. The ordination of Tristram Gilman ; he continued in the ministry there until 
1809; see note to Mr. Smith's Journal, p. 216. Mr. Lyman was from York, 
grandfather of Theodore Lyman, of Boston, who died in 1849. Mr. McClintock 
was from Greenland, Morrill from Biddeford, and Eaton from Harpswell. 

3. Capt. Thomas Colson, of Bristol, England; his wife was Dorcas, daughter of 
the elder Dr. Coffin. She died in England, about 1800. 

4. Rev. Samuel Lock, President of H. College; he was pastor of the church in 
Sherburn, Mass. He resigned the office of President in Dec. 1773. 



:^-28 DKANE S BURY. 

Ajml 3. Bought a hat of Mr. Mussey, paid him 20s, which Mrs. 
Cotton sent me. Polly Titcomb buried. * 5. General Fast. Mr. 
VViswell nofweil. The church people straggling. 6. Heading Sir 
Charles Grandison. 16. Col. Waldo died to day.^ 17. Court sat; 
1 prayed with them : dined at Capt. Pearson's. 18. I dined with the 
Court. 20. Col. Waldo buried ; bearers, Powell, Freeman, Pearson, 
Longfellow, Waite and Codman. 

May 8. I visited Mrs. Newman, who died to day. 13. Mr. Smith 
preached, on " I made haste and delayed not to keep thy command- 
ments ; " the necessity of speedy repentance was argued from the 
necessity of repentance, from the greatness of the work, from its 
growing more and more difficult, from its tending to final obduracy, 
and from the uncertainty of life. 30. I was at election ; dined with the 
Governor and Council. 31. I was at Convention ; heard Dr. Cooper. 

June 26. A non-importation agreement signed by great numbers. 
39. A fiery comet appeared to-night, nearly in opposition to the sun. 

July 1. Deacon Jeffries and the ladies at meeting. Saw the comet 
near the north pole. 3. Court sat. 2. Lord Edgecomb's case took 
up to-day. ^ 6. I dined with the Court ; Edgecomb's case took up 

1. A daughter of Deac. Benj. Titcomb, two years old. Benjamin Mussey, of 
whom the hat was bought, was a native of Newbury, and by trade a hatter. He 
married Abigail, a daughter of Wm. Weeks, of this town, by whom he had ten 
children, viz: John, born 1751, Daniel, Theodore, Edmund, Joseph; Abigail, 
married Daniel How; Sarah, married to John Philbrook, of Standish; Esther 
unmarried; Mary, and one died young. He lived in Middle, near the corner of 
Temple street, until the destruction of the town, when he moved to Standish, where 
he died in 1787, aged 66. The homestead in this town is now owned by his 
grandson John, and part of it is covered with valuable stores, called Mussey's row. 
The old house is standing on Temple street. 

2. Samuel Waldo, Judge of Probate, of whom a notice is given m a note to 
same date of Mr. Smith's Journal, page 218. 

3. Sir Richard Edgecomb, in 1637, received an extensive grant of land from 
Sir F. Gorges, described as situated between Sagadahock river and Casco bay. 
The claim lay dormant for many years, and it is not clearly defined where the 
property was; in 1718, an ineffectual attempt was made to revive the claim ; and 
in 1756, the attempt was again renewed by Sir Wm. Pepperell, the agent of Lord 
Edgecomb, and subsequently by Nathaniel Sparhawk, the son-in-law of Sir Wm., 
but all these failed like the former, as the land had been too long possessed 
under other titles, and could not be satisfactorily designated. One of the Edgecomb 
family was among the early settlers of Saco. (Fol. Saco. Sull. Maine.) 



deane's diary. 329 

to-day also. 7. Jonathan Sampson tried for the murder of Moses 
Norris, and acquitted. 20. A Fast at our meeting, by appointment 
of the Ministers. 

August 6. Mr. Willard came from Dunstan ; he and Mr. Hilliard 
dined here ; we visited Father Smith. ' 7. The gentlemen dined at 
Major Freeman's ; we spent the afternoon with them at Capt. 
Pearson's. 9. We rode as far as Mr. Browne's, with the tutors, and 
dined there with them. 30. Mrs, Armstrong, and John Cox's child 
buried. 

September 1. Mrs. McLellan died." 24. Capt. Freeman buried.^ 
October 26. I married Brackett Marston to Molly Gerrish. 
November 5. Several popes and devils to-night. '* 
Deceviber 6. Our Thanksgiving, general ; no proclamation appeared. 

1771. 

January 30, Wednesday. Smith, Baptist, preached at Burn- 
ham's. 9. A meeting-house blown down at' Newbury; barn in 
Stroudwater ; the only vessel in our harbor driven ashore. 

February 5. James Freeman died of fever, aged 24, 7. Buried.* 
26. Stephenson cast away at Harpswell, Mackerel Cove. 

May 1. Stephenson married.® 25. The apple trees just blos- 

1. These gentlemen were Joseph Willard, afterwards President of H. C, and 
Timothy Hilliard, subsequently minister at Cambridge, both of them tutors at H. C. 

2. Wife of Bryce McCIellan, aged 78: she lived on Fore, near the foot of High 
street. 

3. Joshua Freeman, aged 70; for notice of him, see Smith's Journal, note 
under 1749, page 135. 

4. This was in commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot, and was celebrated every 
year on the 5th of November, by exhibition of the pope and devil in effigy, carried 
through the streets with hideous noises and then burnt. 

5. Son of Enoch Freeman; the following expenses were incurred at his funeral, 
as set down in his father's diary: " Paid John Fox, for eight pairs colored gloves, 
at 2s. ; paid do. for five pairs white women's do. 9s. 4d. ; one pair women's colored 
do. 2s.; one pair men's colored do. 2s.; two doz. lemons 4s. lOd. Paid Mr. 
Codman for shoe-buckles and four bottles of wine 10s. Paid Mr. Anderson for 
knee-buckles, paid the under bearers 12s." The Revolution gave a death blow to 
these absurd customs, which were not, however, wholly discontinued until within 
thirty years; I remember when the pall bearers were regaled with wine, on their 
return from the grave. 

6. Capt. .John Stephenson to Tabitha, daughter of Stephen Longfellow; for 
notice of him, see note to Mr. Smith's Journal under 1784, page 253, 

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330 deane's diaky. 

somed. 26. I married Jonathan Bryant to Elizabeth Weeks, (dauglitcr 
of Lemuel, and sister of Major Lemuel Weeks.) 30. Capt. Stickney 
died very suddenly last night. * 

Jtme 13. Esther deceased this day at 8 P. M. (Esther Marsh, 
aged 12, in his family.) 16. I married Wm, Bryant to Hannah 
Taylor ; no man nor boy present, only a few women for witnesses. 
20. I married John Nichols to Lucy Milk. ^ 

July 2. Court, Superior, sat. I prayed and dined with them at 
Mr. Shattuck's. ^ 

August 1. I dined at Mr. Browne's, with Marsh and Willard, 
(the tutors). Married Benjamin Sa\\yer to Meriam Sawyer. 29. I 
married Thomas Warmigam to Elizabeth Moore, after 9 at night. 
31. I read Mr. Smith's seafaring sermon this evening. 

Septeviber 7. Mrs. Little's funeral ; a great many people. * 8. Dr. 
Pemberton preached for me. * 9. Eode to Yarmouth, with Pemberton 
and Powell. 20. The Powells and Dr. Pemberton came here. 22. 
Dr. Pemberton preached for Mr. Smith. 23. The Powell family dined 
here ; Dr. Pemberton and Mr. Powell set out for Boston. 28. My 
brother Eben and Mr. Parker came. 30. Walked round the town with 
my brother and Mr. Parker. 

October 1. I married Walter Warren and MaryAtwood. 8. Polin 
died. (Caleb Poland, of consumption, aged 65.) 15. I prayed with 
the Court and dined with them. * 24. The new cushion first used, 
(in the pulpit.) 26. Took down shade, put up curtain at the pulpit 
window. 31. Mr. Stoddart married at Portsmouth, 

1. David Stickney, aged 70; he married Mary Adams, 1734; had Sarah, born 
1735, Jacob, born 1737. 

2. She was daughter of Deacon James Milk; Nichols was a mason by trade. 

3. Shattuck kept the public house after Joshua Freeman's death, opposite where 
the Market house now stands. It was the stage tavern for many years. 

4. The wife of Paul Little; she was Hannah Emery, of Newbury, to whom he 
was married in 1762; see note to Mr. Smith's Journal, 1761, page 191. 

5. Dr. Ebenezer, settled in the new brick church, Boston; died in 1777. 

6. It was the practice until within twenty years throughout Massachusetts and 
Maine, for the ^Jourt and Bar, attended by the Sheriff and his deputies, to walk in 
procession to the Court House, on the first day of the term, and to dine together 
on the occasion. It afforded oi>portunity for a pleasant and familiar intercourse 
between the Bench and Bar, and was the occasion of much professional wit and 
humor. It also cherished a spirit of brotherhood and forensic courtesy, for which 
I fear there is too much reason to say that the bar is not at present distinguished. 



deank's diary. 331 

November 5. No popes nor devils here to-night at my house. 
26. Pearson Jones married (to Betty, daughter of Enoch Ilsley, after- 
wards married to Samuel Freeman.) This has been, on the whole, 
an extraordinary warm and pleasant fall. 

Deceirber 11. Warrant from Judge Lynde to bind over Stone, 
Armstrong and Sandford, for a riot. ' 19. I married Wm. Thorn to 
Lucy Freeman, at brother Freeman's. 30. I married Moses Starling 
to Mary Holden. 

1772, 

Jamiary 9. I married John Wright to Shore Chapman, 19. The 
water for baptism froze as hard as I ever knew it, 26. Mr. Holt died 
three quarters after seven o'clock, this evening;^ extreme cold night. 

February 4. I rode to Stroudwater, and brought Mr. Dole down to 
the funeral of Mrs. Coffin. ^ 12, The coldest night that has been this 
winter; the harbor froze quite to the Islands. 15. I went to the 
funeral of Father Sawyer. * 16. I married Nathaniel Springat to Ann 
Purington. 27, I married D, Bailey to Sarah Sawyer. . I prayed 
with Samuel Owen three times to-day. (He died 2Sth, aged 28.) 

March 1. I attended the funeral of Samuel Owen ; I baptised five 
children, read two covenants, 21. I delivered $6 to John Fox to get 
me a barrel of flour. I read, the last winter, the following books : 
Robertson's history of Charles V. over again ; Grove, on the Sacra- 
ment ; The Patrons A. B. C; Toogood, on Infant Baptism ; Saints' 
Everlasting Rest ; Gay, on the death of Mayhew ; Phillips, on 

1. This was for a mob against Arthur Savage, the Naval Officer, on November 
13th; he had became obnoxious to the people for rigorously enforcing the Revenue 
laws. 

2. Moses Holt, jr., a graduate of H. C, 1767: he came here from Anodover, 
September, 1770, at the recommendation of Dr. Deane, and opened a grammar 
school, having kept a school of the same description in Newburyport. He boarded 
with Dr. Deane until his marriage with Mary, a daughter of Deacon Cotton, which 
took place in May, 1771. He was 28 years old at the time of his death. His 
widow afterwards married Stephen Hall, and left several children. 

3. The widow of the elder Dr. Coffin; her maiden name was Patience Hale, of 
Newbury; she died of consumption, and was 57 years old. 

4. Isaac Sawyer, who died suddenly, aged 92. He received a grant of a 
house lot in August, 1726, and was admitted an inhabitant February, 1728. T 
think this is the person who is called Isaac Savage in Mr. Smith's Journal, at the 
close of year 1726. 



332 deane's diary. 

Justification ; Directions to Students ; Hopkins' Sermons ; Dana's 
Sermons, preaciied at Cambridge ; The Wiles of Popery ; Alleyne's 
Alarm ; Government of the Tongue ; Smith, on Redemption ; 
Hoadly, on Acceptance ; Introduction to the study of Philosophy ; 
Browne's Sermon before the E. Clergy ; Bull's Sermons ; Barnard's 
Sermons ; 5,341 pages in all. 

June 14. I preached at New Casco and administered the Sacra- 
ment, it being the first time that I ever changed in this way. 
24. Gooding brought from Ipswich to our goal. 28. Our Sacrament ; 
Lawyer Adams at meeting ; none of the Judges came ; Mr. Adams 
here in the evening. * 

August 2. I prepared and preached a sermon for Goodwin, but he 
did not come. " 9. Our Sacrament ; Dr. Cooper preached for Mr. 
Smith. 25. I delivered to Milk a letter to J. Sullivan, one in it writ 
yesterday. 30. Married Mr. Little. ^ 

October 13. I visited old Mrs. Moody, and delivered her a crown 
sent by Mrs. Johonnot. 

November 2. Polly Freeman married, ^ and Molly Elder ; * I lost a 
wedding by not coming home before dark. 7. Alarmed with a 
rescuing mob about 9 o'clock in the evening. 8. The prisoner 
(Goodwin) came to meeting. 10. Guard kept at the goal, on account 
of the mob. 12. Goodwin executed ; Mr. Clark preached from Luke 
XXIII., xlii. and xliii. ; many people, several thousands. 19. I visited 
Deacon Milk, who fell on sleep this day. ® Marble married Ann 
Motley some time this week. '' 27. Funeral of Mary Lunt, (aged 

1. John Adams, second President of the United States. IMr. Adams frequently 
attended Court here, with other distinguished lawyers, from Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire. 

2. Goodwin was tried and condemned for murder, in throwing a man overboard 
from a boat; after several reprieves, he was executed in November; the first capital 
execution in the State. 

3. Paid Little to Sarah Souther, second wife; his first wife died September, 
1771; see note to Mr. Smith's Journal, page 191. 

4. To Thomas Child; she was daughter of Enoch Freeman. 

5. Mary Elder married Waterman. 

6. James Milk; a notice of him will be found in note to Mr. Smith's Journal, 
under same date, page 222. 

7. Daniel Marble; Ann Motley was daughter of John Motley and Mary Robert?. 



deane's diarv. 333 

21.) 29. Sabbath. Mr. Smith, on " Behold an Israelite indeed, m 
whom there is no guile ; " a funeral sermon for Deacon Milk. 

December 1. Ruddox arrived at last from Newburyport, after a 
voyage of six weeks. 3. I married Joseph Quimby to Hannah 
Noyes. 22. Mr. Hall came to town. (Stephen, tutor at Cambridge.) 
27. Mr. Hall preached all day. A law of the Province was made in 
1760, which makes all notes void, which are without witnesses, six 
years after the making the said law. 

1773. 

March 16. For a pound of tea, I paid a dollar — 45s. 23. I 
prayed at the funeral of Mary Butler, (18 years old.) Our town 
meeting — Mr. Bradbury, Moderator. 30. Court sat; I prayed and 
dined with the Court. 

May 1. I rode to Daniel Ilsley's Avith Mr. Parsons. * 

Juhj 1. Mr. Smith and I dined with the Court. 3. Court did not 
sit in the afternoon, but rode out to Stroudwater. 5. Tea at Brad- 
bury's with the Judges. 30. Messrs. Powell and Bradbury and 
Sullivan * dined with me. 

August 1. Our Sacrament; Mr. Hall preached for me in the 
afternoon. 13. We went to Brackett's swamp for whortleberries. ^ 
15. 1 preached all day on Abraham's trial. 30. General Brattle here 
at meeting. 

September 26. The Church people at meeting ; Mr. Wiswall gone 
to Rhode Island. 28. I visited' the sick, and preached a lecture at 
John Whitney's. 

1. Theophilus Parsons, afterwards Chief Justice of Massachusetts; he was 
then in the practice of law, and keeping the grannnar school here. 

2. James Sullivan, afterwards Attorney General and Governor of Massachusetts, 
was then in the practise of law at Biddeford. He commenced practise at George- 
town, on the Kennebec river. One of his friends asked him, with some surprise, 
how he came to settle in so poor a place. He replied, as he had to break mto the 
world, he thought he would begin at the- weakest spot. 

3. This was a little west of Brackett street, and behind Anthony Brackett's 
house, which stood near where Brackett street enters Danforth street. When I 
was a boy, we often skated in that place, and on a pond which was near the ton of 
the hill westerly of the swamp. 



334 DKANKS DIARY. 

October 2. Several vessels cast away. 10. Mr. Walter preached 
at Church. ' 11, Monday. I received Catharine Larrabee into the 
visible Church of Christ, she owning the covenant and being 
baptised, in tlie presence of the brethren ; Enoch Freeman, Benjamin 
Titcouib, Nathaniel Moody, Theophilus Bradbury, John Jeal, Joshua 
Brackett, Joshua Moody, Wm. Owen, Caleb Shaw, John Nichols, the 
Rev. Mr. Smith, and brother Joseph Bailey, were consenting ; the 
said Catharine departed this life about an hour after she was 
baptised. ' 

November 25. Our general Thanksgiving ; Mrs. Cotton, Mr. Jeal 
and wife, Mrs. Child and daughter, Mr. S. York and wife, Nabby and 
Catharine Flint and Mrs. Woodbury dined here. Mrs. Flint and 
Esther Woodbury were invited, but could not come; Mrs. Cox and 
children, but they would not. 

December 7. At funeral of Mrs. Ilsley. ^ 12. I preached forenoon 
and afternoon; Mr. Smith preached at old Mr. Blake's. 22. Dr. 
Smith taken with a lethargic fit in the night ; remains 24 hours. 
26. Dr. Smith departed this life in the night, about one o'clock. ^ 

1774. 

Febrziary 13. I preached at Buxton to fifteen people ; Mr. Coffin in 
my place. A very cold storm of snow. 

March 1. Dr. Sawyer died. 4. Mrs. Deane made forty-one lbs. 
candles. Mr. Hancock delivered the oration at Boston. 29. I prayed 
and dined with the Court. 20. The affair of the Court House 
determined. ^ ' 

April 7. Sold Mr. Little a barrel of cider ; took £6 for it. Made 
me a new pen. 27. Mr. Symmes arrived here. * 28. Rode with 
Mr. Symmes to Yarmouth ; dined at Col. Powell's, tea at Dr. Russell's. 
29. Our lecture ; Mr. Symmes preached. 

1. Rector of Trinity Church, Boston; graduated H. C, 1756, died 1800. 

2. Wife of Capt. Isaac Ilsley, at Back Cove, aged 70. 

3. John, son of the Rev. Mr. Smith, aged 35, unmarried. 

3. This was in relation to the location of a Court House, which was commenced 
this year, at the corner of Middle and High streets, and was the first erected in the 
County. Previous to this the Courts had been held in the town-house, which stood 
on the same spot, in the meeting-liouse, and somefinics at the tavern. 

4. Rev. Wm. Symmes, of Andover, H. C, 1750, father of Wm. Symmes. \vli<7 
afterwards settled here in the practice of law, 



deane's diary. 335 

May I. Sabbath. Our Sacrament ; Mr. Symmes preached both 
parts : " It is good forme to draw near to God," and " If the son make 
us free, we shall be free indeed." S. I preached to young women, 
16. I cut the first asparagus. 25. town-house, school-house, and 
engine-house removed. * 

June 3. Brother John and family arrived. " 7. I accompanied 
brother John .and family to Pearsontown ; lodged at Mr. Tompson's. 

J7dy 26. Court sat in the old town-house ; I prayed and did not 
dine with them. Dr. Russell dined with me. Went to see the 
raising of Stroudwater meeting-house. 

Atigust 8. At wedding at Mr. York's, (Jos. York to Abigail Flint.) 

September 21. A concourse of people waited on Mr. Tyng.'' 

October 4. Mr. Greenwood's house raised. * 14. Funeral at Ilsley's, 
(Judith, daughter of Daniel Ilsley, 14 years old.) 16. I received my 
new wig this week, and sent the pay by Pearson Jones. 25. Our 
Court sat without prayer. 

November 11. Noyes arrived from Newburyport ; brought me 40 lbs. 
of butter; 19. I gave Noyes six dollars to buy corn and butter. 

December Q. Brother Freeman arrived ; brought C apt. Paine and 
crew, who lost his vessel in a storm. 7. Received of Timothy Noyes 
sixty lbs. of cheese and three bushels of corn. 9. 1 prayed at the 
funeral of Anthony Brackett, at Joshua Brackett's. * 12. I made a 

1. Tills was to make way for the new Court House. The town-house was the 
original meeting-house of the first Parish, erected in 1721, and was moved to 
Hampshire street, where It was destroyed in the fire of the next year. 

2. He came from Norton, Mass., or that neighborhood, and settled in Standish. 

3. A convention was then sitting in town, composed of delegates from the 
different towns m the county, to consider what measures ought to be adopted in 
the present state of the country. Col. Tyng, who was Sheriff, and in government 
interest, was summoned before the convention, appeared and made confessions and 
promises satisfactory to the convention, and was relieved from further attendance. 
The proceedings at length are to be found in the Appendix. 

4. This is the three story house on Middle street, between Silver and Willow 
streets, now belonging to and occupied by the Jewett family. 

,5. Anthony was son of Zachariah, who was son of Capt. Anthony, killed by 
the Indians on the farm now occupied by Mr. Deering, in 1689. He was born in 
Hampton, August 25, 1712; married Abigail Chapman, who lived at the foot of 
Bramhall's hill, in 1757, by whom he had three sons, Jeremiah, David and John; 
his second wife was Abigail, daughter of Joshua Brackett, and widow of Job Lunt, 
to whom he was married in 1764, and by whom he had Abigail, born February, 
1766, married to Daniel Greene, of Portland. 



336 deane's diary. 

bargain with Jedediah Cobb to finish the chamber for £45, O. T., 
closets and all, with cornice and dentals, window shutters without 
freeze panels. 15. Our Thanksgiving, by a resolve of the Provincial 
Congress. 22. We dined with the Jones tribe, at Capt. Pearson 
Jones's. 27. I preached to the Masons from these words : " let 
brotherly love continue." 

no. 

January^d. I refused to marry Michael Lunt. 31. I attended the 
funeral of Mr. Pease, of Scarboro', who died last Thursday. 

March 9. County Congress met yesterday; continuous sitting 
to-day. Received a letter from Dr. Whittaker, dated Newburyport, 
February 23, 1775. 31. Some minute men from Plymouth appeared 
in town with extraordinary sort of caps, who were found to be very 
expert in the military exercise. 

April S. Tyng drew his sword on Gen. Preble. Gen. P. said to 
Mr. T., it is talked that there w'lW be a mob. They met Mr. O. 
(Oxnard). We are going to have a mob to-night. The General denied 
that he said so. T. contradicted him, and called him an old fool, and 
threatened that he would chastise him if he were not an old man. 
The General threatened to cane him or knock him down, if he should 
repeat those words. Then T. drew his sword and threatened to run 
him through. Then Preble collared and shook T. Afterwards T. 
asked pardon of the General, and it was granted. The populace 
inquired if the General was satisfied, and told him he should have all 
the further satisfaction he desired ; but he desired nothing more. 
15. A party of Mowat's men attempted to take Mr. York last night. 
(York was a deserter from the fleet.) 17. Andrew Titcomb saw a 
schooner in the ofRng ; the master told him an express was sent from 
Newburyport, yesterday, to inform that a vessel arrived there 
yesterday, from England, with news that the Acts are repealed ; that 
the same was credited at Portsmouth. 19. The battle at Lexington. 
21. News of the battle arrived this morning, before day. 24. A 
full town meeting. The town thrown into a panic by a tender's 
arriving, supposed to reinforce Mowat. Money sent for powder. 
25. Tuesday. The minute men returned. People moving their 
goods out of town in great numbers. The country people flocking in 
to buy corn and other provisions. News came that 200 Britons were 



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slain in the late action, and but 50 Provincials ; that Lord Percy was 
dead and buried ; that Gage called the town of Boston together and 
solemnly declared that his troops had acted without his orders. This 
news by a master of a vessel that belongs to the eastward, who came 
out of Boston last Friday, and says he was at Boston on Wednesday, 
and that the action was so near the town that he saw the smoke of 
their guns. 27. Printed news of the skirmish arrived in Greenleaf. 
Mr. Parsons came to board here. ' 30. News came that the New 
Yorkers, hearing news of the fight, secured and disarmed the regulars 
in that city, took away the provisions out of a vessel laden for General 
Gage, and sent after another just sailed ; are determined not to let the 
Lively go out, nor to suffer any King's ship to be piloted in. 

May 1. News that the Penobscot Indians offer us their services in 
the war. None of the inhabitants to be seen in Boston by spy-glasses, 
but the regulars in great plenty. 3. Wm. Crocker came ; confirms 
the New York story ; Gen. Gage has seized 300 barrels of flour 
coming into Boston for the use of the Province. Putnam, Ward and 
Heath, are with the army ; they are enlisting the proposed standing 
army. 4. News of a packet arrived for Gage, at New York. 9. Col. 
Thompson apprehended Mowat, his Doctor, and the Rev. Mr. 
Wiswell. ^ 10. The most of the militia came last night and this 
morning. 11. A general fast. Committee of the militia remain 
sitting. 14. Mr. Wiswell went aboard Mowat, and sent ashore to his 
wardens that he should be with them as a minister no more. 28. Mr. 
Oxnard held forth at Church.^ 29. Meeting of the Committee of the 



1 . Theopliilus Parsons, afterwards Chief Justice of Massachusetts ; he graduated 
atH. C, 1769, and soon after came here to keep the grammar school and study 
law with Theophilus Bradbury. He had previously boarded with Deacon Codman, 
on the corner of Temple and Middle streets. He moved to Newbury after the 
destruction of the town, in October, 1775. He was now 25 years old, and had 
taken an active part in the whig movements of the town. 

2. An account of this enterprise will be found in Appendix. 

3. Edward Oxnard was born in Boston, 1746, graduated at H. C, 1767; came 
to Falmouth as a merchant, and continued here until the destruction of the town in 
October 1775, soon after which he went to England, where he remained until 
near the close of the war, when he went to Nova Scotia. When peace was declared 
he returned to Portland, and became an Auctioneer and Commission Merchant. 
He died July 2, 1802. In October, 1774, he married Mary, a daughter of Jabez 
Fox of this town, by whom he had Mary Ann, married to Mr. Mosely, of 

43 



338 deane's diary, 

several towns, who voted to send a petition to the Congress, setting 
forth the poor and defenceless state of this town and county, and 
praying that the regiment now raising in the county may be stationed 
here. Capt. Bradish to set out for Boston to-morrow morning. 
31. Mr. Dawes brought news last evening of the affair of Hog Island 
and Noddle's Island. I saw a manuscript copy of the address of the 
city of London to the King. 

Ju7ie 7. The Senegal, Capt. Duddington, arrived. 8. John Taries 
murdered himself. (He cut his throat ; he was imprisoned for a rape 
at North Yarmouth.) 12. I went a sailing in the harbor, with Mr. 
Bradbury and others. 14. General muster of the alarm list and all. 
}5. Stroudwater meeting-house in danger of being burnt; the engine 
carried up. Betwixt twenty and thirty sail of transports, with troops 
and some horses, arrived at Boston — with what are expected amount 
to three or four thousand. 19. News of the fight at Charlestown : 

Nevvburyport, Lucy Jones, married to John Fox, of Portland, Wm., Edward and 
John, all of Portland. She died in 1835. 

While iMr. Oxnard was in London, he belonged to a club of refugees, who dined, 
at the Adelphi tavern every Thursday, under sumptuary regulations in regard to 
wine and liquors, and the expense of the dinner. The cost of the dinner, exclusive 
of wine, was not to exceed two shillings and sixpence to each person. One of the 
members was appointed steward for each occasion, who ordered the liquors and 
collected the bills. The Genealogical Register, for 1849, page 82, contains the 
regulations and the names of some of the members, who were, Daniel Silsby, Joseph 
Taylor, Isaac Smith, jr., Harrison Gray, jr., Samuel Quincy, J. W. Clarke, Jona. 
Bliss, Saml. Porter, Wm. Cabot, Thos. Flucker, R. Clarke, S. Curwin, Jona. Sewall, 
Samuel Sewall, J. S. Copely, George Brinley, David Greene, Edward Oxnard, 
S. S. Blowers, Francis Waldo. Mr. Oxnard kept a journal during his absence, 
which is principally occupied by an account of his private movements, and 
occupation, and has little public interest. It is in the hands of his son in this town, 
of the same name. 

The refugees, like men in adversity generally, were bound together in the closest 
ties of sympathy and friendship; during the war, they sighed for a restoration of 
peace, on such terms as would restore them to their native land, and the enjoyment 
of their property; and when all hope of reconciliation was at an end, and 
peace severed the two countries and their hopes, many of them retired on 
appointments from government to the colonies, others wandered back to their old 
homes in this country, a few remained in London and its neighborhood, always 
keeping up a kind and friendly intercourse, weekly dining together, sighing like exiles 
over their crushed hopes, until death, gradually diminishing their numbers, dissolved 
all their eartlily ties. 



deank's diary. 339 

(Bunker Hill, June 17.) 21. Ordained Mr. Nash/ 22. Colson's 
boat and five men taken.* 

July 3. Town meeting to choose representative. ^ Capt. Ross 
arrived with flour and a vessel at Purpoodock with corn. 25. Court 
met and did almost no business. 

August 3. News came that the armies were engaged last Tuesday. 
13. About twenty enlisted soldiers, part of Lane's company, at 
meetmg; the church people also at meeting. 27. I preached all 
day ; Mr. S. at Purpoodock, Mr. C. (Clark) gone to head quarters. 
(Mr. Clark had become a chaplain in the army.) 

September 1. Rev. Mr. Charles Warnsdorff, from Broad Bay, 
came here and lodged. 

October 15. The British Bostonian was in town ; the deacon 
invited him to preach in the afternoon, but Mr. Smith told him he 
was a stranger and declined it. I was not able to preach. 16. 
Monday. Mowat, with another ship, a sloop and schooner, all armed, 
arrived and came to by the Islands. 17. Mowat's fleet worked up 
to the town ; he sent a letter ashore that he would burn the town in 
two hours. 18. Wednesday, The town destroyed : ^ fine day. 19. 

1. Samuel Nash, of Gray: see note to Mr. Smith's Journal, same date, p. 229. 

2. They were going to the Presumpscot river, as they pretended, for water — see 
Appendix. 

3. Samuel Freeman was the representative this j'ear. 

4. F'or particulars of this sad event, reference is made to the Hist, of Portland, 
and to the Appendix in Smith's Journal. The accompanying sketch, taken 
from Pointer's draft, will show the extent of the conflagration, and the following 
letter written by Dr. Deane, containing a graphic criticism upon the draft, will 
repay perusal. 

" Sir — I find you have been so partial to me as to manifest in a letter to»the Col. 
some opinion of my skill in drawing, by desiring that I would suggest eomo 
alterations and amendments in Pointer's draft. I profess but little experience in 
such matters ; but I have been examining it as well as I could — and in general I 
think the design is very badly executed; for I can find scarcely one building drawn 
according to truth. Kuig-street is not so straight as it ought to have been; and all 
the houses adjoining it are drawn with their ends to the street, whereas most of them 
fronted it. The court-house is miserably done. One street is omitted, viz: that 
between Capt. John Cox's house and Miss Helton's. The wind-mill should have 
been placed further to the northeast. Back-street should have altered its course 
from the meeting-house to the wind-mill. Barns and buildings of less iniportanco 
are almost wholly omitted, and some large stores not inserted. All the building* 
between the wmd-mill and fiddle-lane on Back-itreet are left out, These are some 



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deane's diary. 



Rainy. 20. Rainy. P. Jones sat out for head quarters. 21. Rainy 
and high wind at S. E. 24. I had seven turkies stole out of the 
yard. 25. We returned to town to tarry. Mr. Hall lodged with me. 

of the most essential faults that have occurred to me; but it would be endless to 
enumerate all the errors. 

f I should thinlv it advisable that the gentleman who makes the plate should come 
and see the town; for I can conceive of no other way for him to get so true an idea 
of it. The expense of his journey will but little augment the cost of the whole. 
But if it should be thouglil best to go on with tlie work immediately, I would 
suggest the following alterations: 

Let barns, &c. be placed where you can recollect there were any ; and perhaps 
it would not be amiss to make some where you do not remember any. Not only 
does justice require it, but it is necessary, to give the appearance of a compact 
settlement. Let the meeting-house have a bell, and also a wuidow or two in the 
tower. Especially let the taking of a man with a torch in Cox's lane be inserted. 
The stripping of a fallen officer near to Capt. Pearson's house, m the street; and 
the knocking down of an incendiary with the breech of a gun near to Mr. Butler's 
door. Perhaps it would not be amiss to have two or three teams that were belated 
in some of the streets, and people huddling goods into the carts. A man may be 
placed near the fire-shell that fell near the meeting-house, tossing it away with the 
muzzle of his gun. 

I think the sun might be placed higher above the horizon, or else left out entirely. 
The street as you enter the town is more than twice as wide as it should be. I 
suppose there should be another boat attempting to land at Mr. Cotton's, and armed 
men opposing it. 

The hay-market should be placed where the street divides. 

The wharves should be nearer parallel with the cross streets than they are. 

The roof of Dr. Watts' house should be shaped after this manner ■ ,^^_2^_2:^ 



The roof of Col. 
thus : 



Preble' 



The roof of your shop thus : 



/ 


IbbbbiI 


^ 


r K 




n 












SgiHSli! 





The roof of my house 
thus: .../ili 



The roof of Mr. Mars- 
ton's house thus : 



Mr. Codman's store, from 
the harbor, tlius : — - — 



I B M 



The roof of Mr. Codman's 
and Capt. Bojnton'a thus : - - 

The rest may be represented as having common pitched roofs. 

One general fault that I observe is, that the low houses are made too small in 
proportion to the large ones. 

Mr. Codman's lane should have been right against the front door of the meetuig- 
house, and a little to the northeast of it, the lane that goes down between Capt. 
Rosi's andDeac. Titcomb's. My house is 70 feet from the nearest part of the 



deane's diarv. 341 

October 31. Attended the funeral of Edward Bell, apprentice to Mr, 
Plumer. 

November 1. A ship appeared in the offing ; arrived at evening ; 
the Cerberus, John Symonds ; he sent a letter ashore, &c/ 2. 1 

meeting-house; the barn and part of tlie wood-house should appear between them. 
The hill at the northeast end of the Neck is not near high enough; nor do the 
grave-stones appear plenty enough in the burying-ground. The land should rise, 
you know, as you come out of the town; from Capt. Joseph McLellan's to Mr. 
Joshua Brackett's, it is up hill. 

These corrigenda I have found in the draft I borrowed of Mr. Preble. Possibly 
it may be different from that which you have. You will please to see whether 
these faults are in it, and direct the engraver accordingly. 

What if you should write over the piece, "A View of the burning of Falmouth, 
in Casco Bay, the principal town iii the county of Cumberland, m the Province of 
the Massachusetts Bay, in New England." 

At the bottom you may put something like the following : — That execrable 
scoundrel and monster of ingratitude, Capt. H. Mowat, of Scotland, who had 
been treated with extraordinary kindness a few months before by the town of 
Falmouth, obtamed by his most earnest solicitation an order from Graves, one of 
King George's admirals lying at Boston, together with the command of a small 
fleet, having on board the necessary apparatus to burn and destroy the said town: 
He came before it the 17th day of October, in 1775, and near sunset, made known 
his infernal errand, by a flag with a letter full of bad English and worse spelling; 
at the same time proposing to spare the town, and endeavor to get the order 
reversed, if the cannon and arms, with some persons as hostages, were delivered 
into his hands. The inhabitants assembled and voted by no means to submit to 
this infamous proposal. Therefore he spent the next day in cannonading, bombarding 
and throwing an immense quantity of carcasses and live-shells into the defenceless 
town, and kindling some fires with torches, whereby more than three quarters 
of the buildings, with much wealth in them, were reduced to ashes, and 
the remaining ones greatly torn and damaged — by which horrible devastation 

and loss, estimated at , many hundreds of persons were reduced to extreme 

distress. And this just view of the town in flames is made public, to shew to the 
world a specimen of the conduct of George the third and his tory-underlings, 
towards the colonists who were supposed to be uneasy under British tyranny ; and 
what vengeance was executed upon them long before the corrupt court of Britain 
declared them to be hi a state of rebellion. 

If you do not like the words execrable scoundrel, you may say, infamoui 
incen-diary, or what you please. Your humble servant, 

Samuel Freeman, Esq. Samuel, Deank. 

1. The purport of the letter was to forbid the people constructing batteries or 
breast works, which they wholly disregarded ; the arrival of this vessel was a 
signal to summon the militia, who came in large numbers from the neighboring 
iowns, and occupied the best of the remaining houses. 



342 deane's diary. 

removed three loads of my goods and quitted my house. 3. A very 
bad storm of rain ; Pride's company in my house. 4. The batteries 
began last night ; all the people at work to day, and there could be 
no meeting. 12. Sabbath. I preached one sermon : service began 
at twelve ; all that attended were thirty-seven souls. 14. Mr. Free- 
man's team ' at town on the works, and at night brought over my 
cabbages. 23. General thanksgiving ; I performed the exercises ; 
dined at deacon Titcomb's. 25. Gen. Frye arrived. ' 26. Sabbath, 
I changed with Mr. Browne ; we had one exercise each. Mr. Smith 
came down yesterday in order to preach, but could not get a lodging 
in town. 27. Snow a foot deep. 

December 1. Mrs. Thomas Bradbury here. Dr. Norwood in the 
evening, and Mr. Webb. News of the Beverly privateer's taking a 
vessel of military stores. 4. We were over at town. I sent by Mr. 
Veazie a letter to Mr. Eaton, 8. I got a pair of runners and went 
to town. 10. Sabbath. Mr. Peter (Smith) preached in the forenoon, 

1. Mr. E. Freeman had removed near to the place where Mr. Deane had taken 

refuge. 

2. Brig. Gen. Jos. Frye. In December, Massachusetts appointed him to the 
command of troops raised for the defence of Maine. After the war, he moved to 
Fryeburg, in this State, and died there in 1794, aged 83. 

Jan. 6, 1776. Gen. Frye wrote a letter from Falmouth to Mr. Freeman, at 
Watertown, in which he says, "By your favor of the 22d December last, and 
another from my worthy friend James Sullivan, Esq., of the same date, I find the 
House of Representatives have voted, that four hundred men shall be raised for the 
defence of the Province of Maine ; that they are to be stationed in Falmouth, under 
my command, and that there is to be one field officer under me. And by yours in 
particular I am informed, that a worthy member of the Court is appointed to draw 
up an establishment for the support of that force. 

" I take leave to observe, that effectual care must be taken to provide barracks. 
It is thought by some gentlemen hero, the troops may be quartered in the houses 
in this town that escaped the fire. If that should be the case, power must be given 
to somebody to take them for that purpose. But for my own part, liaving seen 
several families return into town, I have some thoughts there may be so many more 
return that there will not be a sufficiency of houses left for sheltermg those men." 

He makes other suggestions, among which is, that " As provisions seem to be 
scarce in this place, especially bread, it appears to me that provisions of all kinds, 
which may be allowed the men, must be sent, except, perliaps, beef ; and now m 
the best time to send it." 

He says in a postcript that he should write to Mr. Hawley and others, but " the 
tcarcity of paper prevents." 



deane's DiAuy. 343 

from " When he saw the city, he wept over it." 11. I rode with 
Mr. Browne to Black point, to the funeral of Mrs. Tompson. 

1776. 

January 9. Dined at Mr. Gorham's ; Coffee at Madam Ross's ; 
lodged at Mr. Wise's. 12. Dr. Norwood dined here.* Mr. Pagan 
here. 16. I rented three rooms below and one above in my house, 
together with the barn, to Commissary Sullivan, for £10 per month, 
18. I went to town afoot. (He lived seven miles from town.) 31. 
The Newbury privateer put in here for a harbor last night. 

February 3. Capt. Thomas left our harbor, after enlisting about 
thirty of our people. (For the Privateer.) 4. Sabbath. I preached 
at home all day. A Newbury privateer came in. 6. We went to 
town. 7. We dined at Dr. Watts'. 22. I was at town and received 
of Commissary Sullivan, 27s. 

March 3. I preached for Mr. Lancaster; he for me. 7. A gen- 
eral fast. Mr. Peter preached all day. 15. News of Quebec being 
taken. ^ 18. I was at town afternoon ; town meeting ; selectinen, 
Waite, Jos. Noyes, John Johnson, Humphrey Merrill, N. Wilson, 
20. News of the sacking of Boston. 25. Our Parish meeting ; they 
voted not any support for the ministers, but adjourned the meeting to 
August. Hudson Bayley was married the 8th day of last October, 
(to Sarah Yeaton.) 

April 7. Sabbath. I preached to a thin congregation, from "Whom 
have I in heaven but thee," and " Blessed is he who shall not be 
offended in me." The free contribution renewed — Joshua Eayres 
being sexton. 20. Col. Powell and Mr. Sullivan breakfasted here, 
28. Sabbath. Father Smith preached in the forenoon ; our sacra- 
ment ; I two prayers, he one. 

May 18. I dined at the Commissary's ; I made a bargain with 
Frost to let him my whole house for £18, 5., ante-dating the rent to 
the time he spoke to me for half, and giving him the use of the lower 

1. Dr. Norwood was a physician on the Neck, and lived in the two story 
wooden house on Middle street, between deacon James Jewett's and Lime street. 

.2 This, as is well known, was a false rumor. The attack of Montgomery, 
Dec. 31, 1775, on this city, had been unsuccessful, and terminated with the loss of 
the gallant General. Arnold, 2d in command, was still maintaining a fruitless 
fliege. 



344 deane's diary. 

lot into the bargain. 22. I was at town ; borrowed seven coppers of 
Eunice Titcomb, and seven of Tom Woodman. 

June 30. Mr. Peter preached both parts of the day. The Neck 
and Back street so dry that nothing- green appears in them. I lodged 
at my own house, with Gen. Frye. 

July 2. Kaised house and barn between 3 and | after 6, with 
about thirty hands,* 31. The regiment met at Falmouth in order to 
enlist men, and did nothing. 

August 17. Esquire Pearson very ill. 22. Moved to the new 
house, (Gorham.) 25. Cummings' servants married to-day. 

September \\. Attended the affairs at Woolwich.^ 15. Mr. Peter 
preached in the afternoon; March married. 27. I was at town. 
News of Capt. Stone's taking a ship. 

October 9. Council formed, (at Woolwich.) 11. Adjourned to D. 
Ford's mill house. 12. Sabbath. I preached for Mr. Whiting at 
Damariscotta ; lodged two nights with him at the house of Capt. 
Hodge. 14. Saw Mr. Bradbury, Mr. Langdon, Mr. Brown, Mr. 
Winship, tjie Dr., Capt. Souther, Mr. Parsons and the light horse. 
Sat upon consultation, examining sermons. 15. Examined sermons 
and consulted. 16. In consultation till noon. Mr. Hemmenway, 
Mr. Gilman and myself went to work upon the result. 17. Result 
signed. Mr. Williams began the public exercise with prayer. Mr. 
Browne gave out 122d psalm, then preached on " Blessed are the 
peace makers," then read the result; then Mr. Clark prayed, and Mr. 
Browne gave the 123d psalm, and dismissed the assembly with this 
benediction : " Now may the God of peace," &c. 19. Saturday : got 
home before dinner. 22. I was at town at the funeral of Mrs. Stick- 
ney, (Esther, aged 28.) 27. I married Daniel Green, (to Mrs. Sarah 
Wood, daughter of Joshua Brackett.) 29. I prayed and dined with 
the Court. Married Knight, (John, to Sarah Tobey.) 



1. His house in Gorham, where he lived during the war; it was a one story 
gambrel roof house. The expense of it, as footed up by him, was ;£82, 13s., Id. 

2. Great dissatisfaction existed at Woolwich between the religious parties at 
this time, whicli two Ecclesiastical councils were called to heal, during this autumn ; 
this was the first, attended by Mr. Deane and Theophilus Bradbury as his delegate; 
the other was in October, when Peter Noyes accompanied Mr. Deane, and which 
is noticed in the Diary of that month. The difficulty seems to have arisen on 
theological speculations between the followers of Calvin and Arminius, 



deane's diary. 345 

November 23. Soldiers disbanded. 

December 9. I dined at Mr. Bradbury's ; Mr. Parsons lodged 
here. 12. General Thanksgiving; I performed the whole exercise. 
19. Ordination at Dunstan. * 30. Dined at Mrs. Lucy Smith's, 
(widow of Thomas.) Bought one pound pigtail. 

1777. 

January 8. News of Gen. Washington's victory brought up in a 
copy of a hand bill by Theophilus Bradbury, Jr. ^ 9. The eclipse 
happened later than foretold. 10. Brigadier Preble here. Mrs. 
Longfellow deceased. ^ (15.) Mrs. Longfellow buried ; the bearers 
were Preble, Gorham, Waite, Codman, Butler and Cummings. 

February 5. We kept a fast to-day, which was to have been kept 
last Wednesday ; and was kept in the four New England Govern- 
ments. 6. Mrs. Smith, the Foxes, and Mrs. Oxnard dined here. 
10. Mr. Moody died.^ 18. I was at funeral of Tabitha Stephenson.* 

March 30. News of a victory near Brunswick. I dined at Capt. 
Jos. McLellan's, in company with Lieut. Hartshorne. 

April 8, Wm. Haskell buried. 12. I attended the funeral of 
young Small, killed by the falling in of a cellar. 

May 1. Snowed most of the day. A Provincial fast ; Mr. Hall at 
meeting. Jtdy 1, Court sat — Mr. Browne prayed with them. 

August 3. Mr. Balch, Chaplain of the Boston regiment, preached 
for me. 9. Jeremiah Titcomb drowned, (son of Deacon T., six years 
old.) 16. Stark's victory at Bennington. (27.) News of Stark's 
victory. 28. A Fast throughout this State. 31. John Mussey got 
home, having been taken and detained by the Rainbow. ^ Cook and 
Sutherland and Lewis are taken, and on board. 

September 24. News of Gates' victory. 

1. Rev. Benjamin Chadwick, as successor to Rev. Richai'd Elvins, who died Aug. 
12, 1776. He graduated at H. C. 1770, was dismissed in 1795, and died in 1819. 

2. Battle of Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776. 

3. The wife of the first Stephen Longfellow ; she wasT abitha Bragdon, of York. 

4. Enoch Moody, aged 63: suddenly. For notice of him, see note to Mr. 
Smith's Journal, same date, page 235. 

5. This was probably the daughter of Capt. John Stephenson, and grand- 
daughter of Stephen Longfellow. Capt. Stephenson moved to Gorham, after the 
destruction of his house in the conflagration of '75. 

6. Capt. Jolm Mussey, son of Benjamin Mussey and Abigail Weeks; was born 
February 15, 1751, and died August 7, 1823; hia first wife died in 1796, aged 39; 

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346 deane's diary. 

October 6. Gen. Frye came to lodge here. 14. Dr. Watts and 
lady, Mrs. Oxnard, Mrs. Fox, Miss Sally Hodge, and Miss Sally 
Codman, dined here, and Mr. Longfellow afternoon and evening. 

November 2. Mr. Smith and I preached on the same text. 13, 
News of a great victory. (Saratoga.) 

Mr. Deane's receipts this year were £161, 19, 4. 

His expenses 147, 9. 6. 

1778, 

January 12. Prize arrived. 

July 1. The family met at Freeman's about appraising. * 2. In 



he afterwards married Widow Merrill. He was for many years an enterprising ship- 
master; afterwards he engaged largely in commercial pursuits, and made considerable 
improvements in town by his buildings, «&c. He accumulated a large estate, which 
he left to his only two surviving children, John and Charles. One of his improve- 
ments was the erection of Mussey's row, in Middle street, the largest block which 
had then been attempted tn.town; commenced ui 1799, and now owned by his sob 
John. 

1. The heirs of Moses Pearson, who died June 5, aged 81. Moses Pearson 
was born in Newbury, in 1697, and was by ti-ade a joiner. He came to Falmouth 
about the year 1728, and early took an active part iu the affairs of the town; 
within the first ten years of his residence, he filled the offices of Town Clerk, 
Selectman and Town Treasurer. In 1737, '40 and '49, he represented the town 
in the General Court. In 174.5, he raised a company in this neighborhood, and 
joined the army for the siege of Louisburg, where he gained the confidence of the 
commandmg otRcers, and was appointed Agent of Sir Wm. Pepperell's regimen?, 
and Treasurer of the nine regiments employed in the siege, to receive and distribute 
the spoils of victory. He remained at Louisburg through part of 1746, superin- 
tending the construction of barracks, a hospital, and the repairs on the fortifications, 
and was sent home by Gov. Shirley to procure materials to complete the works. 
In 1760, on the establishment of the county of Cumberland, he was appointed the 
first Sherifi', and held the office until 1768, when Wm, Tyng was appointed. In 
1770, he was raised to the Bench of the Common Pleas, and continued in that 
office until the revolution. He died June 5, 1778, aged 81. His wife was Sarah 
Titcomb, a sister of Col. Moses Titcomb, who was killed at Ticonderoga in 1755, 
by whom he had six daughters and no son. His daughters were all married, as 
follows, viz: Mary, born December 4, 1720; married to Ephraim Jones 1739; died 
1775; Elizabeth, born February 20, 1722; married first to Jos. Binney 1745, second 
to Joseph Wise 1749; Sarah, born November 28, 1723; married to Daniel Dole, 
died 1785; Eunice, born January 25, 1727, married to Rev. Samuel Deane, April 



■deane's diary. 347 

the division of plate, Eunice (his wife) drew the small can, buckles 
and snaps, the large glass, large gold ring, dozen of silver jacket 
buttons, gallon pot. 12. Mrs. Oxnard came home. 

August 12. Went to town ; dined at Capt. Deering's, tea at Capt. 
Stover's, lodged at brother Titcomb's. 13. Dined at brother 
*Titcomb's; afternoon, at Dole's, about dividing the personal estate. 
IS. Messrs. Bradbury and Browne inoculated. 

September 7. I attended the funeral at Rand's. 10. Married 
Pennell. ' 

Decemher 13, Read Dr. Chauncy on the new light. 

1779. 

ilp•^Z 21. Confirmed news of seven prizes. 

May 6. Continental fast. Four Quakers at our meeting — sat 
with hats on all the forenoon service, and then harangued. 
June 15. I set out cabbage and tobacco, " 
July 11. Preached to the troops.^ 

5, 1766; died 1812; Ann, born January 19, 1729; married to Benjamin Titcomb 
1753; died 1800; Lois, born August 11, 1733; married to Joshua Freeman 1750; 
died March 21, 1813. 

Tliey all had i?sue but Mrs. Deane. His wife died November 2, 1766. He was a 
large proprietor in this town and in Standish, which for several years was called 
Pearsontown, from him, having been granted to him and others engaged in the Louis- 
burg expedition. He purchased in July, 1730, of Daniel Ingersol, the old Ingersol 
Claim, extending from Fore street to Middle street, opposite where the Custom House 
stands, and opened Willow street tlu'ough it; here he built a house, and occupied it 
until the destruction of the town, when it was burnt. His son-in-law, Benjamin 
Titcomb, built on the same spot, after the war, the house which now stands there, 
but since greatly enlarged, in which he lived. Mr. Pearson exercised a controlling 
mfluence in the town for many years. He owned, beside his estate on Fore and 
Willow streets and at Back Cove, six acres from Congress street to Back CovOs 
where Pearl and Wilmot streets are, and left a valuable property to his heirs. 

1. Mathew Pennell to Anne Tukey, daughter of John Tukey ; they were 
parents of John, Josiah and Charles, now living here. Mr. Pennell was a caulker, 
and came from Brunswick. He lived on Franklin street, adjoining the Tukey 
■estate ; the house, built in 1785, is still standing. 

2. I find frequent notices of his tobacco culture, which he seems to have 
carried on for several years, but with what success does not appear. 

3. The regiment raised here for the Bagaduce expedition. They sailed on the 
19th, in transports which came from Boston. For particulars see note to Smith's 
Journal, June 30, 1779, page 241. 



348 deane's diary. 

August 27. Jackson's regiment arrived. ' 28, I attended funeral 
at J. Haskell's, 

September 2. News of the arrival of a French fleet at Sandy Hook. 
20. Ploughing on Pitchwood hill. * 

October 15, Got in the last of my potatoes from Pitchwood hill. 

November 1. We dined with Mr, Derby and lady, at Mr. Butler's. • 
4. Humiliation day. 

December 9. Continental Thanksgiving. 28. Mr. Fosdick and 
Nancy C, here. (James Fosdick and Nancy Codman, married 
in 1781.) 31. Received my deer-skin breeches. 

Mr. Deane's receipts this year were £860, 4s. 4d., of which, about 
£24 was from stranger's contributions. Expenditures, £619, 18s. 8d. 
The currency is in depreciated paper, of which twenty-nine dollars 
at this time was worth one dollar in silver. 

1780. 

February 14. I attended the funeral of Mrs. Haskell. 

March 28. I went to Lambert's funeral. 

Ajyril 26. Continental fast. 

June 16. Col. Mitchell dined here ; I went to the funeral ol 
Zech. Baker's wife. 

July 13. Gen. Wadsworth and others here. 20. State Fast. 

September 7. News of a French fleet, twenty-two sail, bound to 
America. 28. Conant's Grist mill raised. (At Saccarappa.) 29. 
Cut my tobacco. 

Oct. 27. Observed the eclipse; dined at Mr. YxQemdiW's cum posse. 

December 7. Continental Thanksgiving. 

1781. 

May 3. Continental Fast. 24. (Mr. Deane left on a journey to 
Massachusetts ; he paid ferriage at Portsmouth, 26th, £4, 16s. O. T., 
and at Newbury £2, 8s.) 27. Sabbath. Preached for Mr. Gary. 

1. Col. Henry Jackson ; he was on his way to join the forces in the Penobscot, 
but hearing of the disastrous result of that expedition, he remained here, and 
assisted in fortifying the town. 

2. This is the spot which he afterward dignified in song. 

3. Richard Derby, of Salem, who married the widow of Mr. Smith's soa 
ThomaB. 



deane's diary. 349 

May 29. Academy met. ' I dined at Col. Powell's. 30. Election. 
I dined with Mr. Otis. 31. Thursday. Mr. Mellen preached. I 
dined at Dr. Cooper's. 

June 8. Paid for leather gloves £21. 12. Dined at Judge Trow- 
bridge's. (At Cambridge.) 16. Paid for two yards of cloth, $400 ; 
paid for cheese, four new paper dollars ; ferriage at Newbury, fourteen 
dollars. 18. Ferriage, a pistareen. * (Probably at Portsmouth.) 

July 8. I prayed and dined with the Court. Harper brought news 
that the French have taken Tobago, and landed 10,000 troops on 
Barbadoes, and have 10 sail of the line in the harbor. 19. I went to 
town, carried Mrs. Oxnard down. ^ 

October 27. News of the surrender of Comwallis. 29. Monday, 
Public rejoicing ; we dined at Mr. Codman's. 

November 27. Mr. Moody, Longfellow, Preble — social row — and 
others here, ■* Moody lodged here. 

December 4. Kow at Mr. Butler's.* 13. Continental Thanks- 
giving, I preached ; we dined at Capt. Dole's. * 20. I went to 
wedding at Burnell's, (Amos Thomas to Mehitabel Burnell.) 

1782. 

Jarmary 1. Kow here, consisting only of Mr. Butler and our- 
selves. 5. Saturday. I wi'ote a whole sermon. 13. Sabbath. 
Very cold — I preached afternoon ; no preaching in the forenoon ; but 
one female at meeting in the afternoon. 

February 24. The coldest night we have had this year ; the 
harbor froze to the Islands. 

1. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which Mr. Deane was a 
member. 

2. The different sums paid for ferriage will show the state of the currency at 
that time. 

3. Mrs. Edward Oxnard, a daughter of Jabez Fox ; her husband was then in 
England, a royalist and refugee. 

4. There is frequent mention of these social parties at different places, which 
he called rows ; the row seems to have embraced the family circle. 

5. John Butler. 

6. Daniel Dole ; he married Sarah Pearson, sister of Mrs. Deane ; was by 
trade a blacksmith, and lived before the war in King street. He afterwards 
moved to Westbrook. His children were Danielj Mary, married to Andrew P 
Titcomb, and Moses. 



350 DEANE S DIARY. 

March 16. We removed to town. ' 20. Parish meeting ; I gave 
the Parish £100. - 22. I visited at Widow Tobey's, Widow Moody's . 
and Samuel Procter's. 23. I was at Widow Tucker's, Widow 
Stover's and Jos, Riggs's. 

April 1. The town met to vote for Governor, &c. 2. I attended 
the funeral of Robert Sutherland, (forty years old.) 29. Mr. Hooper 
arrived from Salem. ^ 

May 2. Mr. Hooper moved into the west end of the house. 7. 
News canoe, that England has granted us independence. 14. I was 
at Gorham — dined at Madam Ross's. * 

Jidy 2. Judge Gushing so ill, no Court. 4. Court sat — I prayed 
with them and dined with them. 6. Court rose about 8 o'clock, P. 
M. Mr. Bradbury lodged here this Court season. 7. Two Judges 
and Mr. Attorney General at meeting, and drank tea here. 24. A 
great shower with some lightning; struck at Stroudwater bridge, and 
at Presumpscot, I. Waite's barn. 

September 3. I rode to Gray. (4.) Council continues sitting. 5. 
Mr. Clarke preached lecture ; Council dissolved, * &c. 8. Sabbath. 
We chose Deacons ; nine votes for Mr. Codman, seven for S. Freeman, 
three for Col. Pike. ^ 9. Mr. Lancaster and his father here. '' 



1. During the war, Mr. Deaiie resided at Gorham, where his diary shows he 
was constantly visited by his friends, and kept open doors for all. His journal, 
wtuch contains an entry every day, is principally occupied with domestic matters, 
the state of the weather, and occurrences m his farming operations. His life seems 
to have been one of quiet industry and solid enjoyment, notwithstanding the troubles 
and distresses of the war. 

2. That is, he relinquished so much of the amount due him on account of his salary. 

3. Probably Joseph Hooper, who married Mary Stickney, in January, 1782. 
She died February 21, 1796, aged 32, and he died suddenly, March 24, 1802, aged 
45. He was a magistrate, and kept a school in Centre street ; he became 
intemperate before he died. 

4. The widow of Alexander Ross, and mother of Mrs. Tyng. A friendly and 
constant intercourse existed between the families ; their farms at Gorham joined. 

5. This was a council called by the Church m Gray, to act on a disagreement 
between them and the pastor, Rev. Samuel Nash, who was settled there in June, 
1775. It resulted in dissolving the ministerial relation. 

6. Richard Codman and Saml. Freeman were chosen in the place of Jas. Milk, 
deceased, and Nath'l Green Moody, who had moved from the parish to New Casco. 

7. Rev. Thomas Lancaster, minister of the first Church in Scarboro' ; he was 
a native of Rowley, Mass.; H. C. 176-1. SeUied ;it Scarboro', 1775, and died 
there January 27, 1831, aged 89. 



deane's diary. 'Sol 

'Nowmher 28. Continental Thanksgiving — Mr. Smith preached 
from Ps. CXLV. v. Contribution for the poor. 30. Saturday. 1 
wrote a whole sermon, which served for two the next day. 

December 1. Ferara's wife found dead in her bed about noon ; 
(drunkenness.) Edward Preble got home, 8. I preached all day; 
Mr. Smith could not see. 23. Meeting of the Neck proprietors at 
Mrs. Greek's. * 

1783. 

January 15. Wednesday. Extreme cold — harbor froze to Hog 
Island, and continues till Thursday night. 19. Mr. Codman's house 
on fire at 7 A. M. 24, News of the evacuation of Charleston. 
28. I went to Pearsontown — dined at Mrs. Ross's, (Gorham) ; Mr. 
Frothingham, Mr. Davis and Mrs. Oxnard there. 

Fehruary 2. The coldest night 1 almost ever knew. 23. News 
came that the treaty of peace is signed — taken from the West India 
papers — King's speech, &c. 

March 5. Mrs. Titcomb, Mrs. Preble and Hooper here. The new 
cushion made here cost seven dollars. (Probably for the pulpit.) 
9. Sabbath. Dr. Watts, W. Storer, Mr. Davis and I. Titcomb here 
in the evening.^ 31. Mr. Fosdick got home with news of peace; it 

1. Mrs. Alice Greele kept public house many years before and after the war, 
in the one story house which stood on the corner of Hampshire and Congress sts., 
and which was removed about three years ago. It was the fashionable retreat of 
the day, where the young men resorted to riot on baked beans, and have their 
frolics. Its walls could disclose some scenes of merriment not enacted in these 
modern times. Perhaps one at least of our townsmen now living could give some 
graphic and interesting descriptions of these scenes if he chose. 

2. These were prominent men in the village. Dr. Edward Watts came here 
about 1765, havmg married that year, Mary, the daughter of Thomas Oxnard, of 
Boston, whose widow, his father, Judge Samuel Watts, of Boston, had married for 
his second wife. He built the three story wooden house near the comer of Lime 
and Middle streets, opposite the Exchange. In 1773, he purchased a large tract of 
land, extending from Congress to Spring street, where Brown and South streets 
are, which he sold out in lots. He died suddenly in Wells, on his return from a 
journey to Boston, June 9, 1799. The widow of Dr. Watts died suddenly, January 
19, 1812, aged 70; their children were, Thomas Oxnard, born March 6, 1766, 
died July 1790; Edward, born May 11, 1768, sailed as master, and never heard 
from; Sarah, born June 8, 1770, married Judge Jonas Clark, Kennebunk, died 
November 5, 1842; George, born July 20, 1775, lost at sea; John Osborne, born 
April 5, 1777, died December 29, 1802; Francis, born January 22, 1780, died 



352 deane's diary. 

arrived at Boston last Saturday morning (29) by Col. Trumbell, who 
came express from Philadelphia and left that place the 23rd of March. 
The news came in a packet from Calais, and arrived at Chester, on 
Delaware river. An express went immediately for Congress. 

in Boston, April 6, 1845, father of Francis O., Esq., of Boston; Polly, bom Dec. 
4, 1782, married Capt. John L. Lewis, Portland, died May 8, 1844; Lucy, married 
Tilly M. Munroe, Portland, and is the only survivor, 1849. 

Woodbury Storer came here quite young from Wells ; in 1780, he married 
Anne, second daughter of Benj. Titcomb, who died 1788, leaving four children; 
and for his second wife a daughter of James Boyd of Boston ; he led a life of 
activity and usefulness, held many responsible offices, and brought up a large 
family of well educated and respectable children, the only survivor of whom now 
remaining here is Woodbury Storer. One daughter by his first wife married 
Barrett Potter, Esq., and another, Wm. Goddard. The late Rev. John P. B. 
Storer, of Syracuse, N. Y., Robert, Dr. David H., of Boston, Hon. Bellamy, of 
Cincinnati, and two daughters, Francis and Margaret, are children by the second 
marriage, and all survive but John. He died in 1825, aged 65. 

Daniel Daris came here in the autumn of 1782, from Barnstable, where he was 
born in 1760, to practice law : Mr. Frothingham being then the only lawyer in this 
town or county. He was a man of quick perceptions, good talents, easy address 
and of gifted speech, and rose rapidly in his profession. He built the house on 
Congress street, recently occupied by Asa Clapp, having, for a small sum, bought 
the lot extending from Congress street to Back Cove, embracing about three acres, 
in 1792, of the heirs of Benjamin Larrabee, the grantee from the town. Li 1796, 
he was appointed District Attorney of the U. S.; in 1801, he received the appoint- 
ment of Solicitor General of Massachusetts, an office created for hun, and which 
expired with him in 1832. He was frequently a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives and Senate of Massachusetts. In 1803, he moved to Boston, where his 
reputation as an able advocate had preceded him, and where he had an extensive 
practice. In 1786, he married at Quebec, Miss Louisa Freeman, by whom he had 
a large family of children, nearly all of whom are dead. His eldest daughter mar- 
ried Wm. Minot, Esq., of Boston. He died at Cambridge in 1835, aged 75. 

Joseph Titcomb, the last of the four mentioned in the diary, was son of Deacon 
Benjamin Titcomb, and was born in Portland, February 2, 1757. He was brought 
up on the sea, a^d v/as many years an active ship master and merchant. He was 
ten years selectman of the town, and nine years a representative to the General 
Court. In April, 1783, he married Eunice, daughter of Ephraim Jones. His only 
surviving daughter married Reuben Mitchell, and they occupy the house in which 
her father lived, now standing on Plumb street. Capt. Titcomb brought the news 
of the declaration of Independence to this town, and was the first, as he informed 
me, to introduce the fashion of wearing pantaloons here, having adopted it abroad; 
before that, breeches were universally worn by old and young. He died August 6, 
1836. His widow died August 13, 1842, aged 92. 



deane's diary. 353 

April 2. J. Titcomb's marriage. (Jos. Titcomb with Eunice Jones.) 
4. Second handbill containing news of peace brought by Barton and 
Thurlo. Great rejoicing to-day. 11. Keceived news of the procla- 
mation for the cessation of arms. 23. Capt. Titcomb moved in ; and 
Mr. Hooper in the great room. (His house.) 26. News came with 
peace proclaimed by Congress. Mr. B., the Post (Barnard), here by 
4 o'clock in the afternoon, No public notice taken of it to-day. 
28. Mr. Morse's arm taken off. 

May 1. Thursday. Our great rejoicing; Mr. Browne preached 
and I prayed. 13. Mrs. Hooper died. (Dropsy, aged 27.) 20. 
Attended the funeral of Mrs. Ingraham. (Wife of Jos. H. Ingraham, 
and daughter of James Milk.) 23. Mr. Graves' funeral. 27. Town 
meeting to vote on dividing the town. 

JuTie. I transcribe the whole entries for one month as a specimen 
of his manner. 

Sabbath 1. S. E. Foggy and raw. Monday 2. S. E. Foggy, 
remains cold. Tuesday 8. S, Fair, grows warmer. I planted 
cucumbers. Singing meeting. Wednesday 4. S. and S. W. 
Sprinkling and thunder. I set the fence between mowing and 
pasture ; had Jo. Wilson to help me on account of D. Cammett. 
Thursday 5. N. and S. Fine day. I visited Widow Bailey. Mi'. 
Nash dined here. I finished sticking peas. Friday 6. S. E., rainy. 
Saturday 7. S. E., foggy. We dined with Mr, Bradbury, &c. at D. 
Titcomb's. Sabbath 8. S. W., fine day. Monday 9. S. W., fine 
warm day. Mr. Bradbury dined here. I made bars at Back Cove. 
Tuesday 10. S. W., cloudy and warm. I made bars at Parsonage. 
Mrs, Gorham and Mrs. Barker dined here. Wednesday 11. S. W,, 
foggy. Thursday 12. S., foggy and warm. D. Titcomb set out for 
Boston. Friday 13. S., cloudy and warm. Mrs. Stephenson dined 
here. Saturday 14. S., foggy. Took Hussey's horse to pasture. 
Sabbath 15. Cloudy ; a thunder shower in the intermission. No 
baptism. Monday 16, N. W. Squally and a pure air. Thurlo 
sailed. I brought from Mr. Lancaster's three and a half pounds 
butter. Tuesday 17. N. W., &c., cloudy. Wednesday 18. N. W,, 
&c., very hot; small shower afternoon. Got the grey colt into the 
Parsonage. Gooding hauling rocks, Thursday 19. Extreme hot; 
my head sweated a writing. Friday 20. E. N. E., not so hot. 
Sprinkling of rain. Mr. Lancaster preached my lecture. Saturday 
45 



354 DEANES DIARY. 

21. E., 'foggy, dull and cloudy. I set out my cabbage plants. 
Sabbath 22. S. E., foggy morning and evening. Our Sacrament ; Mr. 
S. two, I one. Monday 23. S. E., foggy morning and evening. 
Balanced with Mr. Joshua Stephens. Mrs. Cash went away, 
Tuesday 24. S. E., ioggy. Polled the beans; not very warm. 
Wednesday 25. W., extremely hot. Mr. Browne's and Mr. Free- 
man's raisings. Thursday 26. N. W. and S., hot. Mr. Barbour 
worked for me hewing hogsty. Friday 27. S. Ground grows dry. 
D. Titcomb got home. Saturday 28. S. Mr. Bradbury came. 
Small showers in the evening. Sabbath 29. Easterly wind, cool. 
Pretty large assembly. Monday 30. Fair weather ; not hot. 

Mr. Shaw had, towards making the saddle, (Nath'l Shaw, father of 
Nath'l now residing here)— 5| pounds sugar, 2| pounds sugar, 5s. 
6d. 1| pound coffee, Is. 8d, ; cash Is. 4d.— 3s. 2i pounds sugar. 
Is. 8d. Spectacles, 3s. 6d. 41 pounds sugar, 3s. 21 pounds coffee, 
3s. 4d. Total £2. 

Jidy 1. I prayed and dined with the Court. 5. Court finished at 
4 o'clock, P. M. Sabbath 6. Court at meeting. 15. 1 rode to 
Pearsontown between the hours of 10 and 2. 16. I preached a 
lecture at Pearsontown, and baptized Eli, son of Josiah Shaw, Jona. 
and Sarah, children of Mr. Moore, of Buxton. 25. Extreme hot; 
my corn grew eight inches higher, from 10 yesterday to 10 to-day, 
(26.) Some of my corn silked. 

Aiigust 1. Vendue at the public auction room. (India street.) 
29. Meeting of the sufferers. ^ 

November 5. I attended Gorham ordination ; eleven ministers on 
the Council. Mr. Fairfield, first prayer; Mr. Lancaster preached 
from these words — " If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these 
things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ ; " Mr. Browne, 
the charge ; Mr. Gilman, the right hand of fellowship ; Mr. Coffin, the 
last prayer. - 6. Messrs. Foxcroft, Gilman and Williams dined here. 
13. 1 married Brazier. (Moses Brazier to Mercy Bayley.) 

1. This was the term applied to those whose property was destroyed or injured 
In the burning of the town by the British in 1775, and to whom two townships of 
land, viz : Freeman and New Portland, were granted by Massachusetts. 

2. Caleb .Tewett's ordination : see Smith's Journal and note same date, page 
251. Mr. Fairfield was of Saco, Mr. Lancaster of Scarboro', Mr. Gilman of N, 
Yarmouth, and Mr. Coffin of Buxton. 



deane's diauy. 355 

December 8. Very moderate ; an unaccountable sight of teams in. 
11. Continental Thanksgiving. 16, E. Jones, Esq. expired at half 
past one, this morning. * 

1784 

January 9, 10. Violent cold — harbor frozen to the Islands. 19. 
Snow storm, ice broken up in the harbor. 21. (He left for Boston.) 
28. Attended the meeting of the Academy, at Manufactory house. 
Dined at Mr. Storer's, with a large company, 29. Dined at Mr. 
Bowdoin's, lodged at Mr. Lowell's. 31. Pleasant for the season ; 
dined and lodged at Judge Cushing's. 

February 4. I rode to Plymouth ; dined Vv'ith Gen. Wadsworth. 
16. I rode to Boston ; dined at Col. George Leonard's. 23. I dined 
at President's, in company with Dr. Kneeland, Mr. Hilliard, Mr. 
Gannett, Mr. Keed. Sabbath 29. The coldest day in the year. I 
preached for Mr. Cary, (Newburyport.) 

March 4. Got home, and visited Brig. Preble. ' 8. Mr. Johonnot 
here, ^ 

April 2, Gen, Wadsworth arrived in Mussey. (3.) Gen. Wads- 

1. Ephraini Jones came here quite young, from Worcester county, Mass., where 
he was born in 1712 or 1713. He was cousin of Phmeas and Stephen Jones, 
who came from the same county. In 1739, he married Mary, the eldest daughter 
of Moses Pearson, by whom he had three sons and six daughters, viz : Ephraini, 
who became a housewright, married Philhrook, of Standish, and died in Boston 
about 1826; William, a farmer m Standish, and Pearson, who married Betty 
Ikley, daughter of Enoch Ilsley, by whom he had tlu-ee cliildren, Ann, Wm. and 
Enoch, and died January 9, 1781, aged 32. His daughters were Sarah, married 
Theophilus Bradbury, afterwards Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; 
Mary, married to Daniel Ilsley; Elizabeth, to Timothy Pike; Eunice, to Joseph 
Titcomb; Ann, to Enoch Titcomb, Jr., of Nev/buryport, and Abigail to Nathaniel 
F, Fosdick, subsequently Collector of this port. Mr. Jones lived on Fore street, 
near where Lime street enters it, in a two story wooden house, in the rear of which 
was a large garden and orchard, extending nearly to Middle street. His estate 
adjomed Deacon Milk's on one side, and Samuel Proctor's on the other. He was 
in his 71st year when he died. His wife preceded him in 1775, aged 55. 

2. He died March 11. See page 251. 

3. Samuel Cooper Johonnot, nephew of Dr. Cooper, of Boston. H. C. 1783; 
he afterwards established himself here as a lawyer, and kept the town in an uproar 
for two or three years by his satirical talent, and was finally mobbed out of town. 
He went to Demerara, and died there. He was highly educated, having been some, 
"Sime abroad, and was a brilliant scholar. 



356 deane's DiAKr. 

worth dined here. 7. Cold for the season ; the bread and rnilk froze 
in our kitchen. 23. I sowed 33 corns each of four sorts of wheat, 
viz., Elbinger, Poland, New Zealand, Friezland; also 112 corns of 
Brabant rye ; also I put in beets, parsnips, carrots, early turnips, early 
peas. 

May 7. Early peas begin to come up. 12. First mess of 
asparagus, (18.) I began to plant corn and potatoes. 24. We planted 
melons, cucumbers, corn, high beans and potatoes ; I planted the two 
Wells potatoes, being cut into twenty-one pieces, in ten hills ; planted 
strawberry roots in the garden. 25. Mr. Bradbury dined here. 
Court was opened in the afternoon at Major Freeman's, and no prayer 
at the said opening. 26. Court sat in the meeting-house. Two very 
great flocks of brants flew over to tl^e nortlnvard. Dr. Watts opened 
the new road through his lot. * 

July 2. Friday. I dined with Mr. Tucker at Parson Browne's ; 
Mr. Tucker preached from " Do thyself no harm." I prayed before 
sermon. 4. Sabbath. Mr. Tucker preached for us. 11. Mrs. Dole 
prayed for. Mrs. Dole died. (Wife of Daniel Dole, and daughter of 
Moses Pearson.) 14. Sister Dole buried. 21. Gen. Wadsworth and 
Mr. Goodwin arrived in Capt. Cooper. ^ 



1. This road must have been what was at first called Beaver lane : now that 
part of Brown street which lies between Congress and Free streets. Dr. Watts 
purchased of the Moultons, of Hampton, in 1773, five and one-half acres, extend- 
hig from Congress to Spring street, on both sides of where Brown street was after- 
wards made, and reaching up to the lot on which Isaac Ilsley now lives. Free 
street was laid out through it in 1786, before which there had been only a path up 
to the Wind Mill, which stood on a rocky hill where Mr. Anderson's house 
now stands ; the new street for a long time retained the name of Windmill street ; 
as late as 1790 it is so described in a deed from Watts to Elijah Kellogg. Dr, 
Watts parcelled out this tract to various persons, viz : Capt. Eben. Davis, corner 
of Brown and Free, Daniel Mussey, corner of Brown and Congress, Thomas 
Berry, on Brown street, or " the lane," Elijah Kellogg, John Goodwin, Benjamin 
Stone : under which the title is still held — Mr. Davis and the Mussey heirs being 
ihe only ones who hold by descent. 

2. For Gen. Wadsworth, see note to Mr. Smith's Journal, 1780, page 244. He 
probably now moved his family here from Plymouth. Mr. Goodwin's name was 
John ; he came from Plymouth ; was a rope maker ; he had a Walk on Spring 
street, and in 1786 he purchased a lot on Free street of Dr. Watts, and erected 
the two story wooden house now standing on the corner of South and Free streets 
His wife was sister of Dr, Thacher of Plymouth, the author of several works or 



beane's diary. 357 

September 21. I was visiting sick and mourners. ' 

October 8. Wadsworth and Goodwin here, and wives. 10., 
Sabbath. Mr. Bass preached at Capt. Stone's. 12. Mr. Bass and 
lady here. ^ 17. Sabbath. Mr, Bass preached at Weeks's house. 

November 30. I had of Mr. Cummings, three pairs of black stock- 
ings and a bras^ cock, amounting to two dollars, which is to be taken 
out of next year's salary. 

December 27. Parish meeting about petitioning, &c. (Probably 
to sell the parsonage lands and to tax pews.) 

1785. 

Fehniary 3. No post this week ; veiy cold. 5. Harbor froze ofl' 
to the Islands to-night. 22. Went to Cove to wedding. (Joseph 
Lunt to Jane Noyes. ') 28. Sabbath. Mr. Moody preached for me 
two sermons, from these words — " This is a faithful saying and 
worthy," &c. 

March 23. Wedding at Capt. Ingraham's. ^ 30. A violent snow- 
storm ; 18 inches of snow fell this time ; 5 feet in the woods at least. 

revolutionary history; by her he had several daughters, but no son. His daughters 
married Thomas Clark, now of Paris, Me., Daniel Poor, Dr. John Revere of 
Boston, Mr. Gurley of New Orleans, and Dr. Williams of Mississippi, and are all 
dead but Mrs. Revere, whose son is the author of a recent tour in California. Mr, 
Goodwin and his wife both died in 1828, well stricken in years. 

1. There died this month, Anthony Brackett, aged 78, Mrs. Poland, 74, Tlios. 
Greeley, 30, and children of Jolm Smith and Dr. Harding. 

2. Probably Edward Bass, Episcopal minister at Newburyport, and afterwards 
first Bishop of Massachusetts. 

3. Joseph Lunt was son of James Lunt, who came from Newbury, and who 
married Hannah Noyes, daughter of Joseph Noyes, 1743. James lived on King 
street, on the spot now occupied by Gen. Fessenden, where Joseph was born; he 
6old the property to Dr. Coffin. James had four sons, viz: Amos, who moved to 
Brunswick, and died leaving no children; Benjamin, who man-ied Mary Brackett, 
and settled in Falmouth; he had fourteen children who lived to be married, nuie 
daughters and five sons; James, called Colonel, born 1750; married Eunice, 
daughter of Josiah Noyes, and lived in the house corner of Franldin and Congress 
streets, which he built 1786; he died childless; and Joseph above named, who 
lived at Back Cove, and died 1804, leaving one child, Peter; his wife was daughter 
of Peter Noyes . 

4. I perceive by his table of marriages, that Josiah Tucker is that day married 
to Sally Cuehing — was it at Capt, Ingraham's ? 



358 DEANe'js DIAUY. 

May 10. The snowbank scarcely gone in a southern exposure 
near Sandy Point. 

Jurie 20. Mr. Gage, the singer, came and began. ' 

Jtdy 8. I walked with Count Castiglioni. 9. I dined at Mr. 
Codman's with the Count. The Court finished their business in the 
forenoon. 10. Two Judges at meeting in the forenoon. 29. Count 
Castiglioni set out westward. Gov. Hancock arrived. 30. Gov. 
Hancock sailed for Kennebec. 

Augxtst 1. Mr. Parker began his school.* 2. Much thunder, lightning 
and rain ; Christopher Dyer's barn burnt, with seven loads of hay in it. 

September 1. Moody and Ilsley began to paint my house. 19. 
We dined at Gen. Wadsworth's, with Judge Gorham and Dr. Barker 
and ladies. 

October 3. Court house partly raised. (4.) Raising finished. ^ 
22. A great deal of rain fell ; Presumpscot bridge carried away. 

November 3. Wedding at Mr. Tukey's. (Wm. Ingraham to 
Sally Tukey.) 

December 15. General Thanksgiving ; Mr. Parker, Mr. Boyd, 
Mrs. Greenleaf and children dined here. 

1786. 

January 7 . Funeral of Miriam Deane ; I returned after sundown. 
16. Extraordinary cold night — harbor froze over as low as Titcomb's 
wharf. 19, Extreme cold — all the harbor froze up. 

February 7. At Mr. Freeman's wedding. (Samuel Freeman to 
Betty Jones, widow of Pearson Jones.) 

April 2. A most violent snow storm, say nine inches. No 
meeting. 10. Wm. Titcomb's funeral. (Son of Deacon Titcomb, 

1. Isaac Gage, who came here from Essex County, Massachusetts, and resided 
here many years; he died in 1826, aged 62, leaving two daughters; Eliza, now 
living in this town, and Julia, married to Dr. Kittredge, of Dover. 

2. He officiated at the same time for about two years as reader to the Episcopal 
Society. 

3. This Court House was erected on Congress street, fi-onting Exchange street, 
where the present brick Court House now stands. It was of wood, 46 by 34, two 
stories high, with a belfry and short spire, surmounted by a gilded cock. The 
Courts were held in the second story; the first floor was an open hall. It was sold 
to the Union Society of Christians, and moved to Exchange street, in 1816; they 
sold it in 1827, and it was removed to Green street, where it now stands, used as a 
soap and candle manufactory, by Robert Hull. 



df.ane's diary. 359 

aged 18.) 17. Parish meeting ; Mr. Froth ingham was sent as a 
Committee to know if I would give up half of my salary, and give a 
discharge for 17S3. To the former, I said I cannot do it ; to the 
latter, I said I must have time to consider of it. , 

July 5. Judge Sewall and lady here. 6. Singing at meeting in 
tlie evening. 12. Mr. Swett ordained. ' 

August. (On a journey to Boston, Cambridge and Taunton, from 
August 13 to September 15.) 

October 16. Finished digging potatoes to-day, 280 bushels, 20. 
Finished threshing barley, 12 bushels. 31. Court sat ; I prayed 
with them, and they excused themselves from asking me to dine, as 
they had not spoken for a public dinner. 

November 27. A wedding. (Alexander Barr to MehitablePeabody.) 

December 27. The bay frozen over to Hog island. 

(Money paid in 1786. The whole amount by the memoranda on 
the diary is £32, 3s. lOd. ; and by the same paper, the money 
received appears to have been £35, 4s. 5d. This is probably lawful 
money, which makes the receipts for the year $112 40, and the 
payments S107 20 ; and the other operations were, as was customary 
at that time, by barter. Dr. Deane was a good farmer, and had a 
surplus of productions to exchange with his parishioners. No man. 
among us managed his agricultural labors so well as he did.) 

1787. 

January 10. Greenleaf married. (Amos Greenleaf to Polly 
Lowell.) 27. I wrote to Mr. Parsons, Mr. Little and Mr. Hilliard, 
by Mr. Frothingham. 31. Convention sat in school house. " 

Februarys. Harbor entirely frozen to the islands. 11. Vessel 
cast away at Bang's island ; Capt. Chase and his apprentice drowned. ^ 

1. Rev. Moses Swett, ordained at Sanford, previously called Phillipstown; he 
was the first minister settled over the Congregational Churcli there, which was 
formed the same year. He died August 31, 1822. 

2. The convention to consider the subject of the separation of Maine from Massa- 
chusetts. A large majority of the people of Portland, and other parts of the State, 
were then opposed to the separation. The convention appointed a committee to 
present or not, at their discretion, a petition to the Legislature on the subject, and 
adjourned to September following. Samuel Thompson, of Brunswick, was chairman 
of the Committee. Judge Wm. Gorham, of Gorham, was President of the Con- 
vention, and Stephen Longfellow, Clerk. 

3. A sloop of ninety tons, bound from Sheepscot to Newbury; the tw(^ 



30tJ deane's diary. 

13, At the funeral of Capt. Chase and his apprentice ; both buried in 
one grave. 28. Since the first of last January, I have proceeded 180 
pages in my Dictionary. (Georgical Dictionary, or N. E. Farmer.) 

March 4. Sabbath. Fine day. I preached to sixteen persons in 
the forenoon, and to twenty in the afternoon. I was very ill with 
headache, and high fever in the night. 19. I begun my eleventh 
pamphlet. 21. Tea at E. Storer's. * 

April 3. I preached a lecture on Psalmody. 

Mmj 3. I grafted three sweet russets in a row nearest the alley ; 
four spice apples in a row the opposite side ; three Newtown pippins 
scattering in the nursery. In the orchard, first xo\y, pearmains ; 
second row, sweet greenings ; third, greenings ; fourth, whirlings. * 
18. Quicksilvered two apple trees. 

September 11. (Mr. Deane started for Boston, and returned the 
28th.) 19. Breakfasted at Judge Sumner's, dined at the President's. 
20. Heard Mr. Eckley— " I am the light of the world." 21. I 
preached lecture at Cambridge. I received advance money of Dr. 
Sawyer, Mr. Bradbury and his son, for each of them, a volume of the 
N. E. Farmer, which money I have in keeping. I received two 
shillings also of Dr. Langdon, which I delivered to Mr. P. Wingate, 
together Avith the subscription paper, ^ 

drowned were Capt. Moses Chase and John Deane; three of the crew were saved. 
The loss was attributed to the want of a light house at the mouth of the harbor, none 
having been then erected; immediate measures were taken to secure that object. 

1. Ebenezer Storer; he was brother of Woodbury Storer, and came from Wella. 
In November, 1785, he married Eunice, a daughter of Deacon Benjamin Titcomb, 
by whom he had a large family, viz: Harriet, married to Stephen Stephenson; 
Mary Ann, George L., Charles and Elizabeth L. His wife died October 14, 1798, 
aged 39. He married a second wife, who survived him. He was an enterprising 
and respectable merchant in town for more than twenty years, and was prostrated 
with most of the other commercial men of the place, in the embarrassment of 1807, 
growing out of the embargo, and our difficulties with England. He built the brick 
house, now greatly enlarged, and occupied as the Elm tavern, on Federal street, and 
subsequently the large brick house on the corner of High and Danforth streets, now 
owned aud occupied by John Mussey, Esq. He died in Gorham, in 1846. 

2. The Dr. had a large orchard and nursery back of his house, which attracted us 
urchins forty years ago, who often scaled his high and pointed fence, to get a taste 
of his choice fruit. The trees and his labors in that branch have all disappeared. 

3. The New England Farmer was the first book on the subject, which, up to 
that time, had been published. A new edition has been published within a few 
years, by the experienced agriculturist, Mr. Fessenden. 



deanf/s diary, 361 

(The Episcopal Church was consecrated July 15, of this year ; 
Rev. Mr. Fisher, of Salem, officiated. 

November. Dr. Deane and Peleg Wadsworth were chosen members 
of the Convention on the adoption of the Federal Constitution. They 
both declined, when John Fox and Capt. Jos. McLellan were chosen. 

His money receipts for this year, were £24 ISs. Id., and money 
payments £24, 8s. 8d. 

This year the first attempt was made to carry passengers and the 
mail in a carriage to Boston from Portland. Joseph Barnard, the old 
mail carrier, got up a two horse wagon in January, and put forth a 
most attractive advertisement, stating that he should leave Motley's 
tavern every Saturday morning, arrive in Portsmouth on Monday ; 
and leaving Portsmouth Tuesday, arrive in Portland on Thursday. 
He adds — *' Those ladies and gentlemen who choose the expeditious, 
cheap and commodious way of stage travelling, will please to lodge 
their names with Mr. Motley." " Price for one person's passage the 
whole distance, twenty shillings." Now the contrast — time, two and 
a half hours, price 7ii'ne shillings ! ) 

1788. 

January 6. Sabbath. Violent cold ; water for baptism froze over. 
(No fires then in church, Mr. Deane first began this month to enter 
the state of the thermometer and of the weather in his diary.) 21, 
Mr. Wait delivered me two dollars which were sent by Mr. Wingate. 
I put it with money paid by other subscribers, in the left hand drawer 
of my desk. Mr. Wingate's paper in Mr, Parker's hands. (There 
are other similar notices of the receipt of money from subscribers to 
his Georgical Dictionary.) 

February W. News of the Constitution ratified. 

April 6. Kellogg preached our Sacrament. * 

1. Rev. Elijah Kellogg, afterwards settled over the second Church and Society 
in this town : for an account of which see note to Mr. Smith's Journal under 1787, 
p. 260. Mr. Kellogg had served in the army, and after the war entered Dartmouth 
College, from which he graduated in 1785, at the age of 25. He studied his profession 
with the Rev. Mr. Murray, of Newburyport, one of the most popular preachers of 
the day, who, on being requested to recommend a candidate to them, sent them 
Mr. Kellogg, He came m October, 1787, and more than answered their expecta- 
tions, he drew large audiences, became very popular, and the meeting-house now 

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Maij 1. Spinning day. ' 



occupied by the 2(1 Church was erected for him in 1788, and first opened on 
Sunday, Sept. 28. Mr. Kellogg was ordained October 1st, of the same year. 

The following notice of this event appeared in the Cumberland Gazette of 
" Thursday, October 2, 1788. Last Lord's day the house of worship newly erected 
by the 2d Parish was opened, when Rev. Elijah Kellogg, their pastor elect, 
delivered a sermon excellently adapted to the occasion, and yesterday he was 
ordained. Rev. Mr. Williams, of Falmoutii, began with prayer. The Rev. Mr. 
Thatcher, of Boston, delivered a sensible and elegant discourse ; the Rev. Dr, 
Hemmenway prayed before the charge, which was given by Rev. Mr. Browne, of 
Falmouth. Rev. Mr. Clark, of Cape Elizabeth, gave the right hand of fellowship, 
A prayer by Rev. Mr. Lancaster, of Scarboro', concluded the solemnity. 

" The amiable character and respectable abilities of the young gentleman 
ordained — the remarkable unanimity which has prevailed in the Society from its 
first commencement — give them a rational prospect of mutual and permanent hap 
piness." The sermon was soon after published. 

He contuiucd sole pastor until 1807, when Rev. Edward Payson was ordained 
as his colleague. This connection subsisted only about four years, and Dec, 1811, 
the senior pastor was dismissed. A few of his friends retired with him from the 
old Church, and formed a new Society , called the Chapel Congregational Society, 
to which he ministered, with some intervals of absence on missions, until Dec, 
1821. He was not settled again in the ministry, but the latter part of his life was 
devoted to Missionary exertions in different parts of the State, and in benevolent 
and philanthropic efforts, in which he took deep mterest. He was a man of 
singularly ardent temperament, and gave his whole powers to whatever service he 
offered himself. During the first part of his ministry he was distinguished for eloquence 
and zeal, but his mind for a tune was drawn off to other pursuits, and a desire of 
accumulation led him mto speculations which were disastrous to hun^ He also 
became involved in the atTairs of liis wife's father, Capt. McLellan. He purchased 
a large tract on the western side of Exchange street, and erected the block of 
buildings called Jones's Row, and several houses in town, which drew him too 
much from his clerical duties. He returned to them, however, from the disap- 
pointments of the world, with renewed interest and zeal. In July, 1792, he 
married Eunice, daughter of Joseph McLellan, then a wealthy merchant in town, 
by whom he had several children; Joseph M., of Portland, and the Rev. Elijah, of 
Harpswell, only remain. His wife still survives. He was a class mate of Salmon 
Chase, formerly of this town, and the Rev. Alfred Johnson, late of Freeport ; the 
papers of the day, speaking of the Commencement at which he took his degree, 
say, " In the afternoon Mr. Kellogg opened the entertainment by an elegant and 
anunated oration on eloquence." He died March 9, 1842, aged 81 years and 8 
months. 

1. This entry is explained by the following article from the Cumberland 
Gazette, May 8, 1788 : 

" On the 1st instant, assembled at the house of the Rev. Samuel Deane, of tliis 



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363 



August 10. Mr. Clark changed with Mr. Kellogg. 
Septeviler 2. Enoch Freeman, Esq. died of decay, aged 82. * 



town, more than one hundred of the fair sex, married and single ladies, most of 
whom were skilled in the important art of spinning. An emulous industry wa3 
never more apparent than in this beautiful assembly. The majority of fair hands 
gave motion to not less than sixty wheels. Many were occupied in preparing the 
materials, besides those who attended to the entertainment of the rest — provision 
for which was mostly presented by the guests themselves, or sent in by other 
generous promoters of the exhibition, as were also the materials for the work. Near 
the close of the day, Mrs. Deane was presented by the company with two hundred 
and thirty-sLX seven knotted skeins of excellent cotton and linen yarn, the work of 
the day, excepting about a dozen skeins which some of the company brought in 
ready spun. Some had spun six, and many not less than five skeins apiece. She 
takes this opportunity of returnuig thanks to each, which the hurry of the day 
rendered impracticable at the time. To conclude, and crown the day, a numerous 
band of the best singers attended in the evening, and performed an agreeable 
variety of excellent pieces in psalmody." 

" The price of a virtuous woman is far above rubies. » * * She layeth her 
hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff." 

1. Enoch Freeman was for more than forty years one of the most prominent 
and respectable men m this town and State. In 174S he was appointed command- 
ing officer of the soldiers on the eastern frontier ; the same year Justice of the 
Peace; 1749, Naval officer ; 1750, Collector of the port ; a representative to the 
General Court in the years 1748, '55, '66 and '74; 1760, Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas, and Register of Deeds — both of which offices he held twenty-nme 
years; in 1770, Judge of Probate. At one and the same time he held tlie following 
important offices, viz : Judge of the Common Pleas, Judge of Probate, Register of 
Deeds, Colonel of the Eastern Regiment, Selectman and Representative to the 
General Court. In 1774 he was chosen member of the Council, but negatived by 
the Governor for his Whig principles. 

He was the eighth son and ninth child of Samuel Freeman, of Eastham, Mass., 
where he was born. May 19, 1706; and great grandson of Samuel Freeman, who 
came to this country from England in 1630, and settled at Watertown. The first 
Samuel returned to England and died there, leaving two sons, Henry and Samuel ; 
his widow, in 1644, married Governor Thomas Prince, of Plymouth, and 
settled at Eastham with her son Samuel. Enoch's father, Samuel, was born in 
Eastham, in 1660, and died there in 1743, having had twelve children. The 
subject of our notice graduated at H. C, 1729, and about six weeks after, entered 
the counting house of Mr. Hall, a commission merchant in Boston, as a clerk, and 
in 1732 became a partner, receivmg one-sixth part of the profits of the business. 
His employment led liim often into the eastern country for the purchase of lumber, 
&c. ; and about 1742 he established himself permanently in this town. Here he 
was engaged largely in commercial operations, supermtendent of the affairs of 



364 deane's diary. 

September 5. Moses Dole died, aged 23, (son of Daniel Dole and 
Sarah, daughter of Moses Pearson.) 

1789. 

(The entries in the diary become very meagre, as it will be perceived 
they have been for some time past, of matters of public interest. 
They are now little else than a record of the thermometer and the 
state of the atmosphere.) 

May 12. Association met here. 26. 1 prayed and dined with the Court. 

September 15. To Topsham. 16. Ordination. ' 

October 7. Visited Schools. 

Gen. Waldo, who had large estates in this neighborhood, and an active magistrate 
in criminal antl civil affairs, at a time when there were no lawyers, and few Courts 
lield here, and scarcely any other magistrate but him. 

On the 31st of August, 1742, he married Mary Wright, who died Jan. 7, 1785, 
by whom he had seven children, viz : Samuel, born June 26, 1743, died June 18, 
1831; James, born Sept. 9, 1744, died Feb. 5, 1771; Mary, born June 1, 1746, 
died Oct. 22, 1750; William, born Nov. 13, 1747, drowned June 6, 1765; Enoch, 
born Sept. 4, 1750, died Dec, 1832; Mary, born Jan. 12, 1752, married Thomas 
Child, and died in Boston, 1832 ; Lathrop, born March 27, 1753, died April 26, 1753. 

He lived at first in a house on Congress street, just below Wilmot street; in 
1749 he built a house on Middle street, nearly opposite where the meeting-house 
of the 2d Parish stands, which was destroyed in the conflagration of the town in 
'75, and near which his son Samuel afterwards erected the large house now 
remaining. 

Mr. Freeman was of a sanguine temperament, and from an almost overwhelming 
influence, which his character and position had given him, was somewhat 
arbitrary and overbearing ; a disposition which the long possession of office is apt 
to nourish. He was, however, a man of moral worth and strict integrity, and of 
great usefulness, from his education and energy, in our community. The same 
energy and capacity for business were transmitted to his son Samuel, of whom a 
particular notice will be found in another place, and wliich, under a softened tem- 
perament, were most largely and beneficially exercised through many years for the 
welfare of our people, and which still survive in his works. His son Enoch moved 
early to Saccarappa, and engaged in farming and lumbering. September, 1787, 
Enoch married Mehitable Cushing, by whom he had Abigail, born July 7, 1788, 
married Daniel Babb ; Enoch, born July 14, 1790 ; Nathaniel, born July, 1792 ; 
Mary, born July 21, 1796 ; Sarah, born Oct. 27, 1797, died 1814 ; James, born 
May 29, 1800. He died in Saccarappa in 1832, aged 82. His father and grand- 
father died at the same age. None of the family now remain in town. 

1. Rev. Jonathan Ellis ordained at Topsham ; he was a graduate of Yale 
College, in the class of 1786. He was dismissed in 1810, without the formality of 
a council, having ceased preachuig several years before. 



deane's diary. 365 

1790. 

On the January leaf, is the following memorandum :— " The whole 
of Brackett's land, 47| acres ; set off to the widow, 36 acres ; remains 
11| acres."' 

February 9. Mercury 2° = and did not rise over V^ x ; harbor 
frozen over to Hog island. June 25. Bird hanged. ' 

1. There is a great error here ; the homestead, lying between Main street 
and Fore river, above Brackett street, contained 157 acres, of which 44 acres were 
set oft' to the widow for her dower, January, 1787. Thomas, the oldest son, had 
the rest assigned to him, of which he sold sixty acres the same year to William 
Vaughan. Anthony Brackett died Sept. 10, 1784, aged 78; his wife was Kerren- 
happuck, daughter of Samuel Proctor, who died at Gorham, at the house of her 
grandson, James Smith, m 1822, aged 93. Anthony Brackett and her brother 
Joshua at one time held the whole upper part of the town, under an old claim 
derived from George Cleeves, the first settler, through Michael Mitton, who married 
his only daughter — one of whose daughters married Thomas, another, Anthony 
Brackett. Anthony held the southern side, from Main street, extendbg as far east 
as Mr. Isaac lisley's house on Spring street ; Joshua, the northern side, down 
nearly to Brown street. A large portion of this was purchased by Nath'l Deering, 
and now belongs to his two children. The eastern part Joshua conveyed to Daniel 
Green and wife, his daughter, and Benjamin Larrabee. Anthony sold out during 
his life time all the easterly part of his share, leaving as above forty-seven and one- 
half acres; each had a house and lived on his inheritance. Anthony's stood near 
where Brackett street enters Danforth ; and Joshua's fronted the head of High 
street; there was a foot path across through the woods between the two houses 
before the revolution. Joshua conveyed to his grandson, Michael Lunt, thirty-seven 
acres of his tract in 1787. They were sons of Joshua Brackett, who was son 
of Mary Mitton, a grand daughter of George Cleeves, and w'ls born in this 
town, 1674. Joshua was the eldest, born in Greenland, 1701; Anthony was 
born there 1707. They came here and asserted their riglit of inheritance 
about 1728. Anthony married Sarah Knight in 1733, and widow Keran- 
happuck Hicks, daughter of Samuel Proctor, in 1756. His children were John, 
Thomas, James, Mary, married first Holliday, of Newbury, second, James Smith, 
thii'd, Isaiah Thomas; Joshua, Elizabeth, married Dr. James Brackett, of N. II. ; 
Keziah, married Bancroft; Samuel, Nathaniel and Sarah, married Joshua Fabyan, 
of Scarboro'. Joshua's children were, Abigail, born Sept. 14,1728, married to 
Job Lunt, 1749, afterwards to Anthony Brackett, Jr. ; Mary, married Isaac 
Skillings, Dec. 18, 1752 ; Sarah, married first Daniel Wood, 1756, second, Benj. 
Larrabee, 1763 ; Thankful, his fifth child, born 1737, married Benjamin Trott, 
1761, and several others. 

2. For piracy ; the second public execution in the State. An account of the 
trial may be found in Mr. Freeman's Appendix to Smith's Journal. Goodwin had 
Aeen executed here in July- 1772. for nuuder. 



366 deane's diary. 

(Ill October, 1790, John Fotheringliam, a Scotchman, aged 70, 
murdered his wife in Saccarappa, and a day or two after committed 
suicide in goal, to which he had been committed. He was supposed 
to have been insane.) 

1791. 

Jammry 10, Light in the Light-house.' 

Jzdy 8. James Tool and Francis Hilton tried for arson and 
acquitted. ^ 

October 25. Sent by Drinkv/ater 24 of the N. E. Farmer to Mr. 
Guild, and 6 to him for Mr. Morse. 

November 2. Association met here. 

(His receipts this year were £109 10s. lOd. Expenses paid out 
£93, 9s. 5d. He says — " Raised on my lot this year — 
70 bushels potatoes, £4 15 500 cabbages, £7 10 

50 " French turnips, 5 00 70 bushels carrots, 7 03 

40 " English " 3 00 3 t " parsnips, 09 

5 " peas, 1 10 4 " beets, 06 

2 " buck wheat, 06 

I find no entry of buildings erected from 17S6 to 1791. This year 
there were thirteen new houses built, and four altered from other 
buildings. See post. 

This year the brig Hiram, of this port, Capt. Daniel Freeman, was 

1. The Light-house on Portland head, in Cape Elizaheth ; the first erected on 
this coast. As early as 1785, the representative from this town was instructed to 
urge upon the government of Massachusetts the erection of a Light-house at the 
mouth of this harbor. But from the poverty of the country nothing was done for a 
year or two. At length the work was undertaken, but proceeded slowly until the 
organization of the General Government. In August, 1790, Congress appropriated 
$1,500 to finish the work, and it was completed withui five months from that tune, 
and first lighted January 10, 1791. The stone work was seventy-two feet high, 
and the lantern fifteen feet, making eighty-seven feet ; this was found too high, 
and about twenty years after, twenty feet were taken oft". The master builders 
were John Nichols and Jonathan Bryant, masons of this town. 

2. For setting fire to Wm. Widgery's house in New Gloucester ; one of the 
boys confessed that they set fire to the house to revenge themselves on Mr. 
Widgery, with whom they lived, for whipping them ; one was sixteen and the 
other eighteen years old. The late C. J. Parsons defended them, and they were 
acquitted — there being no evidence against them but their own confessions, which 
Mr. P. caused to be rejected. 



deane's diary. 367 

cast away near Liverpool, England, and all on board, hut one man, 
were lost. Among them was Robert Gumming, only son of Thomas 
Gumming, of this town. Gapt. Freeman was son of Joshua Freeman, 
and a very promising man. 

The following persons were in trade at this time, viz : Stephen 
Deblois, corner of Fish, now Exchange, street; John W. Quincy, 
Fore ; Shirley Erving, Middle ; Thomas Gumming, King ; Samuel 
Butts, Fore ; Daniel Tucker, Importer, Fore ; Neil Mclntire, Tobacco, 
&:c. ; Harding & Shaw, Apothecaries ; Edward Watts, Middle, 
Apothecary, &c. ; David Smith, Fore ; Peleg Wadsworth, Gongress ; 
Thomas Robison, John Baker, Middle ; Thomas Hopkins, Middle ; 
Jos. McLellan & Son, James Fosdick, Abraham Osgood, Robert and 
Joseph G. Boyd, Lemuel Weeks, and some others. Licensed 
retailers were, Otis Glapp, Wm. Gampbell, John May, (kept in the 
house now occupied by Mrs. Jones as a boarding house,) Wm. Moulton, 
Jona. Deane, Jona. Bryant, Benjamin Titcomb, Wm. Harding, 
Stephen McLellan, John Motley, Josiah Tucker, Daniel Tucker. 
Innholders — Alice Greele, Hampshire; Ebenezer Davis, corner of 
Brown and Free ; Abram Stevens — on the plains, John Rudberg. 

1792. 

March 23. The eclipse was ended before 3 o'clock. 

April 1. Fair. Sacrament — 70 communicants. 

Mmj 2. Association met. 

October 2L Sabbath. Mr. Smith preached. (He was now over 
91 years old.) 

Society for gaining infor-mation. Deacon Benjamin Titcomb, 
Enoch Ilsley, Jno. Frothingham, Esq., Wm. Symmes, Esq., Major 
Daniel Ilsley, Gol. John May, Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, Daniel 
Davis, Esq., Daniel Epes, Esq., Gapt. Lemuel Weeks, Deacon John 
Thrasher, Woodbury Storer, Col. Wm. Cobb, Thomas Robison, 
Edward Oxnard, John Waite, Robert Boyd. 

There are scarcely any other entries this year, than notices of the 
thermometer and weather. 

At the close of this year there were 334 dwelling houses in Port- 
land ; 104 more than there were before the town was burnt. There 
have been 234 houses built since the conflagration in 1775. 

By this statement it appears that the number of houses before the 



3G8 deane's diary. 

destruction of the town in 1775, was 230 ; and 130 of these perished 
in that conflagration, leaving but 100 standing. In 1843, there were 
1335 dwelling houses in the city, and in 1848, 1540. 

1793. 

January. I sent two dozen of the N. E. Farmer to Messrs. Guild 
and Blake. They engage to pay me for each book 77, sell Ss. in 
books that I shall call for at the going cash price. 

February 7. Mrs. Mayo buried. ' 

May 1. Pyrolus Silvestris blossomed. 6. Catherine pear and 
plums blossomed. 12. Apple do. 21. Hotspur peas, cives and 
garden Columbines blossomed. 

September 12. Deacon Richard Codman died. ' 

1. Widow of Eben. Mayo, and daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Coffin. She was 
bom April 21, 1772, married July 4, 1792. Her husband was son of Eben. Mayo, 
a merchant, who came here from Boston, a'nd lived on India street, nearly opposite 
Dr. Cotiiii's house. Eben., the son, was born March 29, 1764; he married for his 
second wife, Jane Brown, of Boston, in 1795, and for the third, Catherine, a 
daughter of deacon Richard Codman, in 1811. He was successively a Merchant, 
Magistrate and Insurance Broker, and a decayed gentleman, and died poor, as is 
usually the fate of persons who pursue pleasure, and confine themselves to no 
steady employment. He had a brother Simeon, born in 1745. His father died of 
palsy soon after the revolution. Eben., the son, left no children, and the only- 
descendants of his father among us are two daughters of Simeon, unmarried. 

2. Of dropsy, aged 63. He was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1730; son of 
Capt. John and Mrs. Parnell Codman. In 1755 his father was poisoned by his 
his three negro domestics, for which two of them were executed, and the third 
transported. Soon after this, he came to this town and engaged in mercantile 
pursuits. July 10, 1758, he married Anne, youngest daughter of Phiiieas Jones, 
by whom he had two children, Richard and Anne ; she died March 31, 1761, at 
the early age of 19. In 1763 he married Sarah, the youngest daughter of Rev. 
Mr. Smith, by whom he had several children, of whom the following survived him, 
viz : William, Sarah, married to Timothy Osgood; Catherme, to Eben. Mayo, and 
Mary, who alone survives, to William Swan. William married Miss Smith, of 
Windham, and left two sons, one a lawyer in Camden, Me.; the daughters by the 
second marriage have no issue. Anne, his daughter by his first wife, married 
James Fosdick in 1781, and died, leaving several children, two of whom, daughters, 
are now living m town, one single, the other married to Edward Burnhani. His 
oldest son, Richard, married Statira, daughter of Gen. Preble, in 1789, who died 
in 1796, leaving three children, viz : Edward Preble, Richard and Statira. He 
married for his second wife, Miss Hitchborn, of Boston, and died, surviving his 
children, Sept. 9, 1833, aged 75. Mr. Codman, the father, was deacon of the 



deane's diary. 369 



1794. 



Jwtie 18. Dr. Hemmenway here. 9. I preached Mr, K.'s lecture. 
(Mr. Kellogg.) 25. Tea at Dr. Erving's.' 

first Cliurch twelve years, and two years Selectman of the town. He traded in a 
gambrel roofed store which stood, before and after the revolution, on the corner of 
Middle and Exchange streets, and which now standa on Congress, just below Green 
street, to which place it was moved to give room to the brick block erected on the 
spot by Mr. Robert Boyd. Deacon Codman built, in 1762, the wooden house near 
the junction of Temple and Middle streets. Until 1830, it fronted on Middle 
street, whh a spacious terraced front yard before it; it had a hipped roof, and was 
one of the best houses in town for many years ; his widow continued to occupy it 
until her death, Sept. 10, 1828, at the ripe age of 87, and her children for some 
years afterwards. At the time of the attack on the town by Mowat, in 1775, it 
was perforated by a ball from the enemy's ships, from which an idea may be 
formed of its exposure to the harbor; the fence of the front yard was several times 
on fire. Tiie appearance of the house and grounds forty years ago, before the 
hand of modern improvement invaded them, was quite venerable. 

1. Dr. Shirley Erving was son of John Ei"ving, of Boston, who was the son of 
John Erving, a merchant in that city; his father married Maria Catherina, youngest 
daughter of Gov. Wm. Shirley, from whom the Dr.'s name is derived. His 
father was a royalist, and a mandamus counsellor, and with his family, except the 
subject of our notice, left the country on the breaking out of the revolution, and 
died in Bath, England, at the advanced age of 92. The Dr. was born in Boston, 
Nov. 6, 1758; he was educated at the Boston Latin School, and entered Harvard 
College in 1773; but when the war commenced, he, with a number of his class- 
mates, the Rev. Dr. Bentley, of Salem, Rev. Dr. Freeman and Judge Dawes, of 
Boston, and others, left College. He did not return, but commenced the study of 
inedicine with Dr. Lloyd of Boston, and assisted him in attending the wounded 
soldiers of the battle of Bunker Hill. He afterwards visited Europe, completed 
his medical studies there, and returned to Boston to practice his profession. He 
married Mary, . daughter of Wm. Coffin, of Boston, where liis eldest daughter, 
Frances, was born. Soon after this, in the spring of 1789, he moved to Portland , 
where he continued in the practice of his profession, connected whh an Apothecary 
establishment, and part of the time as Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes, until 
May, 1811, when he returned to Boston, and died there July 8, 1813, at the age 
of fifty-five. He was tall and slender in his person, and of feeble constitution, but 
a man of pure and noble character, and having the entire esteem and confidence of 
the community. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and 
received the honorary degree of A. M. from H. C, in 1810. His children bom in 
Portland were Wm. Shirley, Anne Smith, lliomas Aston, Edward Shhley, and 
Henry; all of whom are dead without issue but three, viz: Frances, wife of the 
Rev. Benjamin C. C. Parker, of New York, married in 1833; Thomas Aston, in 
Boston, unmarried, and Edward Shirley, Cashier of the Boston Post Office, The 
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370 deane's diary. 

June 26. Our lecture, Mr. K. preached. ' 

October 15. Ordination.* 

(On the leaf of this month is the following entry.) 

Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Under the government and regu- 
lation of two bodies politic. 

Trustees — Brown, Deane, Frothingham, Little, Lancaster, Thacher, 
Mitchell, Oilman, Bradford, Rice, Martin, President and Treasurer, 
with power to elect V. President and Secretary, and declare the tenor 
and duties of their respective offices, remove their members and fill 
up vacancies. Number not more than thirteen nor less than seven ; 
have common seal, elect professors and tutors ; seven a quorum. 

Supervising body — have power to elect President, Vice President 
and Secretary ; to call the Treasurer to account ; to pass upon acts 
of Trustees ; fifteen a quorum. Treasurer to give bond to the 
Overseers before he enters on the duties of his office, in such penalties 
and sureties as they shall approve. ^ 

latter, by whom alone the name is perpetuated, married Hariiet, daughter of Jolin 
Miller, of Boston, and has three children — Harriet, married to Wm. W. Goddard, of 
Boston, Shirley and Mary. Mrs. Erving, widow of the Dr., is now living in Boston, 
in the 90th year of her age. The memory of her virtues is still fresh in this city. 

1. I note this fact as showing a restoration of harmony between the parishes 
so lately at variance. Neither of the pastors of the 1st Parish took part in the 
ordination of Mr. Kellogg. 

2. At Limington; Rev. Jona. Atkinson, of Boscawen, N. H. ; graduate of Dart. 
Col., 1787. He was the first settled minister in that town, and dismissed in 1821. 

3. This College was incorporated June 24, 1794, and by the same Act, five 
townships of land in Maine were granted toward the support of the College. It 
did not, however, go into operation until 1802, when Joseph McKeen was chosen 
President, and the first class entered. In 1806, the first commencement was held, 
when seven young men graduated; three of whom, viz : Richard Cobb, Isaac F, 
Coffin and Benjamin Titcomb were of this town ; Moses Quimby, of Westbrook, 
John 31. O'Brien, of Brunswick, George Thorndike, of Beverly, and John Davis; 
Coflm, Q,umiby and O'Brien only survive. In 1787, an attempt was made for an 
Act to Incorporate a College in the County of Lincoln, under the name of " Win- 
throp College,'^ which did not succeed ; out of this germ the present Institution 
grew. The proposed Act which was published, recites "And whereas tliis Legis- 
lature entertains a high respect and gratitude for the character and memory of 
John Winthrop, one of the first adventurers and patrons of this State when an 
infant colony," &c. "And who with so much justice acquired the title of ' Father 
of the Colony,'' both at home and abroad : " "And having also a high respect for 



deane's diary. 371 

December 3. First meeting of Trustees. 

1795. 

January 5. Old Mrs. Butts buried. 18. Sabbath. Our meeting ; 
terrible snow storm. 

(This year was distinguished by the death of some of the most 
prominent, active and useful citizens of the town, viz., John Fox, ' 
March 16, in his 46th year ; Rev. Mr. Smith, May 23, aged 93, two 

John Wintkrop, son of the aforesaid Gov. Wiathrop," "And likewise of divers 
honorable persons, descendants of the aforesaid Governors, particularly John Whi- 
throp, L. L. D., late Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the 
University at Cambridge, &c." " This Court deeming it their duty to transmit to 
posterity the names and character of such illustrious ornaments of Church and 
State, by some public and permanent memorial of their worth, and of their having 
rendered important services to their country, have resolved to give, and do hereby 
resolve, that the said Institution shall forever be called and known by the name of 
WiNTHROP College." — Cum. Gaz., Feb. 7, 1788. 

The name finally adopted for the College was in honor of Gov. James Bowdoiji, 
a man of literary tastes and great popularity, but who was then dead, whose only 
daughter married Thomas L. Winthrop. His son James, however, did honor to the 
name by his liberal benefactions to the Institution, to which he gave 7,000 acres of 
land, £1,100 in money, a valuable collection of minerals and a paintings, and philo- 
sophical apparatus. The name is now only preserved in this object of their 
affections and bounty. The Governor was grandson of Pierre Baudouin, a French 
exile, who first sought refuge in this town from religious persecution. 

1. Mr. Fox was a native of the town, son of Jabez Fox, by Anne, the widow of 
Phineas Jones, whose maiden name was Hodge, of Newbury. He was born Sept. 
5, 1749. On the 23rd of April, 1777, he n^arried Sarah, a daughter of Daniel 
Fox, of Maryland, who was here with her father about to take passage to the West 
Indies. But thinkuig the voyage of matrimony more agreeable, she abandoned 
the hazards of the sea and moored her bark for life on this strand. I believe it 
was a happy adventure, most certainly a productive one. In the nineteen years of 
their union, they had eight children, as follows, viz : Mary, born August 3, 1778, 
died at Newburyport Jan. 31, 1809; Daniel, born Sept. 15, 1780; Charles, born 
May 2, 1782; Jb/m, born April 1, 1785; 5ara/i, born June 10, 1787; Caroline, 
born June 15, 1789, married John Potter, of Augusta; George, born July 7, 1791, 
and Rebecca, born March 1, 1793, married to Thomas Chadwick, of Portland. 
Mrs. Fox died in Portland, April 29, 1826, aged 65. Mr. Fox was an intelligent 
merchant, and a descendant in a long line of ancestors distinguished in the early 
annals of Massachusetts, and tracing their descent in a lineal course through John 
Fox, author of the " Book of Martyrs," published m London, 1563, who died in 
1587, leaving two sons, Samuel and Thomas. Mr. John Fox sustained the charactw 



372 deane's diaky. 

months; Stephen Hall, September 13, 1794, aged 51; Nathaniel 
Deering, Sept. 14, 1795, aged 56, and Joseph Noyes, October 13, 

of the family, and] the respect entertained for him by his fellow citizens is seen 
ill their repeated marks of favor toward him : he was often chosen a Selectman, 
and was the first Representative from Portland after its incorporation, to which 
office he was elected five years; he was also a member of the Convention which 
adopted the Constitution of the U. S. With a good name, he left a good estate to 
Ills children, a large portion of which still remains in his family. His descent is 
also traced from our first settlers, George Cleeves, througli Elizabeth Clark, his 
grand daughter, and from Richard Tucker, through Anne Hodge, the mother of 
Mr. Fox. 

Stephen Hall was son of Rev. Willard Hall, of Westford, Mass., where he was 
born in 1744. He graduated at H. C. 1765, and was educated for the ministry, 
but was never settled; he was tutor at that College, and fellow, fcom 1772 to 1778; 
in which latter year he married Mary, widow of Moses Holt, jr., and daughter of 
Deacon Wm. Cotton, of this town, and established himself here. By her, he had six 
children, viz., Martha, born Oct. 10, 1779; John H., Jan. 21, 1781, who invented 
an improvment in the rifle, and was twenty years in the service of government at 
Harper's ferry; he died in 1841. His son, Willard P., was a member of the 
30th Congress, from Missouri : Mary, bom Dec. 13, 1783; William Augustus, 
born Oct. 6, 1785; Willard, born June 5, 1788; Martha Cotton, born July 26, 
1792. Neither of his daughters was married; the youngest and the last survivor, 
died Nov. 26, 1847. The only descendants remaining, are the children of John, 
none of whom reside here. Mr. Hall's widow died July 27, 1808, aged 54. He 
was of a sanguine and ardent temperament, and engaged earnestly in the political 
questions of the day, particularly those relating to a separation of Maine from 
Massachusetts. He wrote and spoke, and called meetings and conventions, to 
promote his favorite object; but he lived a quarter of a century too early to see 
its accomplishment. He was one year Selectman of the town, and two years, 
1780 and '81, a Representative to the General Court. His time was chiefly 
occupied in carrying on a tanning establishment near where Cotton street joins Fore 
street, which descended to his wife from her father. 

JVathaniel Deering, who died this year, was born in Kittery, in this State, in 
1739, the eldest son of fourteen children. His father dying poor, when he was 18 
years of age, a heavy burden fell upon him to contribute to support and establish 
the numerous family. At the age of twenty-two, with no capital but his industry 
and intelligence, he travelled east to 'pursue his fortune and better his condition ; 
and after wandering for a while still fiuther east, he resolved to plant himself 
in this town, where his mother, a short time before, had established herself in a 
matrimonial connection with Deacon James Milk. Here, he diligently pursued his 
occupation of boat building, the same to which Deacon Milk had been brought up, 
and which probably led to the intimate relations between the families vvliich were 
taking place. 



deank's diary. 373 

aged 55 years ; a series of blows which the town could not but feel 
in her various branches of industry and enterprise.) 

Ju?ie 25. Dr. Hemmenway preached. 

July 4. Mr. Kellogg delivered oration. 

The marriage of the parents was soon followed — first, by the union of James Milk , 
the only son of the Deacon, with Mary Deering, a daughter of Mrs. Milk, in 1763. 
In October, 1764, Nathaniel Deering married Dorcas, the second daughter of Dea- 
con Milk. These alliances were still further cemented in 1766, by the marriage of 
John Deering, a brother of Nathaniel, with Eunice, another daughter of Deacon 
Milk. John Deering lived in Exchange street, in the house now standing and occu- 
pied by a portion of his family, until his death in 1784, and by his widow, until her 
death, in March, 1835, at the age of 86. Mrs. Milk, the inother, died in 1769, 
aged 58. 

This connection with a family so respectable in point of character and property, 
united with his own personal qualities, secured the fortune of Mr. Deering. On the 
death of Mr. Milk, m 1772, he came into possession of a considerable estate, embra- 
cing a large portion of the eastern side of Exchange street, and other parcels of real 
estate, which still remain in his family. During the war, he opened a store in 
Exchange street, which was attended pruicipally by his wife, whose shrewdness and 
good management contributed not a little to augment the inheritance which she had 
brought her husband. After the war, he extended his business, entered into navi- 
gation, purchased large and valuable tracts of land, among which was the 70 acres 
extending from Congress street to Back Cove, now owned by his children. He 
erected buildings, and was in the full career of successful enterprise, when he was 
suddenly called from the midst of his labors and usefulness. He lived before the 
war in a house on the corner of Exchange and Middle streets, which was burnt : 
he afterwards purchased Wm. Owen's house, which stood where the Exchange now 
is, in which both he and his widow died. His widow survived him more than 30 
years, and died April 17, 1826, aged 85. He left two children, James, born in 
August, 1766, and Mary, born in 1770, married to Commodore Edward Preble, 
March 17, 1801, who died in 1806. The brother and sister are, 1849, both enjoy- 
ing the patrimony and the constitutions inherited from industrious and virtuous 
parents. James married Almira, daughter of Enoch Ilsley, by whom he has a 
large family, in the midst of which the parents still dwell in patriarchal simplicity. 
Long may they so continue. 

Mr. Nathaniel Deering's sister, Hannah, was twice married; by her first husband, 
Fullerton, of Boston, she had Elizabeth, married to Elias Merrill, for many years 
Register of Deeds in this county; Hannah, married to Elliot Deering, 1787, and 
Meriam, married to Daniel Poor, 1795; her second husband was Joshua Adams, 
of New Casco, by whom she had a son, who married a daughter of Archelaus 
Lewis, and left issue. Elizabeth and Meriam still survive; Hannah died in May, 
iSlS. 



374 deane's diary, 

Oclober 13. Joseph Noyes, Esq. died. ' 
Becemher 9. Dug horse-radish, &c, 

1796. 

March 9. Ordination at Durham. " 

June 1. Association meeting. 10. I preached Mr, Kellogo-'s 
lecture, 

October 2^. Dr, Toppan preached. ^ November 2. College meeting. 

(At the end of this year there were 393 dwelling houses in 
Portland.) 

1797. 

January 31. Mrs. Deane broke her arm. 

October 18. Mr. Br. died. (21.) Mr. Br.'s funeral.'' 22, I 
preached at Stroudwater (Mr. Browne's pulpit.) 

November 7. College meeting. (8.) College meeting. 

(At the end of this year, 412 dwelling houses in Portland.) 

1. Of consumption; aged 50. He was son of Josiah Noyes ; his mother was 
Mary Lunt, of Newbury, and was born in 1745. His father hved on the farm at 
Back Cove now owned and occupied by James Deering. He married Mary, a 
daughter of Capt. David Stickney and Mary Adams, in 1767, by whom he had 
Jacob, .4 ?t Tie, married to David Hale, 1797; Betsey, married to Capt. Wra. Lowell, 
1801, and Josiah, lost at sea. Jacob married Anne, daughter of Pearson Jones, 
in March, 1798; their children are mentioned in a note on page 158. After Mr. 
Noyes' death, she married Cotton B. Brooks, and is still living. He built in 1804 
the three story brick house on Free street, now owned by Charles Jones. 

2. Jacob Herrick was ordained at Durham at this time — the first settled 
minister of that town. He graduated at H. C. 1777, and died 1832, at Durham, 
where his descendants now reside. 

3. David Toppan, professor of Theology at H. Col. ; he died in 1803. 

4. Rev. Thomas Browne, of Westbrook. He was settled in the Stroudwater 
Parish, at Westbrook, in 1765. This was the original 4th Parish of Falmouth, 
and the third branch from the 1st Parish on the Neck. A particular notice of 3Ir. 
Browne and his settlement will be found under the year of his installment, in both 
Smith's and Deane's Journals. We are happy to say that the hostile feeling 
which existed between the first Parish in Portland and this child of hers, at the 
time of the separation, yielded to a most friendly intercourse between the pastors 
and people. Mr. Browne was in the 64th year of his age when he died. He was 
a man of good talents and ability, and distinguished for his wit. His son Thomas 
died in this city March 1, 1849, aged 81, and William now resides here. He was 
succeeded by the Rev. Caleb Bradbury, of Dracut, Mass., H. C. 1795, who was 
orda'mcd Oct. 9, 1799, and is still living, although not in the pastoral relation. He 
now resides in Gorham. 



deane's diarv. 375 

1798. 

January 9. I visited Pote. ' 

February 3. At funeral of Adams, Stroudwater. 16. I went to 
mill. 23. Cumming's funeral. - 

March!. Mrs. Ross died. (Elizabeth, widow of AIe,xander Koss, 
aged 77.) 

May 10. I rode to Standish — exhibition there. 

July 5. Pote's trial. August 27. Capt. Pote died. 

September 9. Mr. Gregg, P. M. (Rev. Wm. Gregg preached for 
him, afterwards settled in Cape Elizabetli.) 

1. Jeremiah Pote, imprisoned for the murder of his wife, of which he was 
convicted at the Supreme Court in July, and sentenced to be hung in August; he 
was reprieved to September on account of his sickness, and died in prison before 
the day appointed for his execution arrived. He killed his wife with a shovel in a 
fit of intoxication, and as was supposed from jealousy. He was son of Gamaliel, 
and grandson of William Pote, the ancestor of all the name here, who came from 
Marblehead; he was admitted an inhabitant in 1728, and built the wooden house 
at Woodford's Corner, in Westbrook, where Rev. Mr. Browne afterwards lived 
and died, now standing. He had seven sons, viz : Wm., Samuel, Jeremiah, 
Gamaliel, Elisha, Thomas and Greenfield. Jeremiah was a respectable merchant 
on the neck at the time of the conflagration of the town ; he became a Loyalist, 
and was proscribed. After the peace he settled at St. Andrews, N. B., where he 
died Nov. 23, 1796, aged 71. His son Robert died without issue. One of his 
daughters married Robert Pagan, 1775, the other, Thomas Wyer. William, the 
eldest son, died unmarried; Samuel died in Marblehead without issue. Elisha died 
young and unmarried. Gamaliel married Mary Irish, of Gorham; he had several 
children, and died in New Casco. Thomas married Sarah Merrill, 1757, and had 
nine children; he, and all the family but one, joined the Shakers at New Glouces- 
ter, where Elisha, one of them, born in 1764, and for a while a sailor, became an 
Elder. Thomas died there in 1816, aged 83. Greenfield married Jane Grant in 
1758, and lived m New Casco; he had eight or nine children; one of his daughters 
married Bucknam, of Falmouth. 

2. Mr. Thomas Gumming, who died February 20, aged 63. He came here 
from Scotland in 1773, and opened a store in King street, where he lived; his 
house and store were destroyed, with much of their contents, in the destruction of 
the town in 1775. But on the restoration of peace he rebuilt Iris house on the 
same spot, which is still standing, fronting the entrance of Middle street. Here he 
continued business until his death. His eldest daughter, Margaret, died young in 
1792 ; his other daughter, Eleonora, married Charles Bradbury, a son of Judge 
Bradbury, in 1810, and is now living in Boston, in the midst of a large family, 
His only son, Robert, was lost at sea in 1791. 



"0 drane's diary. 

October L'). Died Deacon Benjamin Titcomb, aged 72. ' 



1. He was the fourth child of Joseph, the son of Wiu. Titcomb, of Newbury, 
who married Ann Smith Oct. 4, 1721, and was born in Newbury Jan. 4, 1727. 
His brothers and sisters were as follows: Sarah, born June 23, 1722, Henry, 
born Sept. 22, 1723; Mary, born July 31, 1725; Oliver, born July 27, 1729; 
Joseph, horn Dec. SO, 1730; John, born Oct. 29, 1732, died 1736; Ann, born 
Aug. 1.5, 1734, died Sept. 26, 1770; Elizabeth, born Oct. 31, 1736; Eunice, born 
Sept. 2, 1738; John, born Dec. 8, 1740; Abigail, born July 9, 1745, died Jan. 4, 
1747. His mother died May 20, 1763, and his father April 2, 1779, aged 81. His 
ancestor was William Titcomb, who immigrated from Newbury, Eng., to Newbury, 
Mass., in 1635. Deacon Titcomb came here in 1746, after the capture of Louis- 
burg, to which expedition he had accompanied his kinsman Moses Pearson, at the 
age of 19. He was a blacksmith by trade, and pursued that employment here. In 
1753 he married Anne, a daughter of Moses Pearson, and the next year built the house 
in Plumb street, now occupied by his grand daughter, Mrs. Reuben Mitchell, and 
which was erected on the corner of Middle and Plumb streets, where his son Joseph 
lived until his death. His shop was on the breast work from which Central wharf 
has been extended. He was a man of fine personal appearance, tall and well 
proportioned; he dressed well, wearing a full bottomed wig and small clothes, and 
was a very worthy and influential citizen. In 1769 he was chosen Deacon of the 
first church, which office he held at the time of his death; he was three years a 
Selectman of the town, and in 1780 was chosen a Representative to the General 
Court. He Hved after the war in the house opposite the Custom House, which is 
now standing, having had a third story added; there he died. His widow died 
July 8, 1800, at the same age, viz., 72. He left a valuable estate to his children, 
appraised at about XlO,000. Among which was three acres of land extending 
from Congress street to Back Cove, just below the meeting house of the 1st 
Parish. This was increased by his wife's estate, valued at $12,000, which she 
inherited from her father, making quite a fortune at that day. Their children were 
as follows, viz : Andrew Phillips,* born Jan. 28, 1754, died 1818, married Mary 
Dole 1782; AJoscs, born Sept. 5, 1755, died in tlie West Indies, wealthy, without 
issue. Joseph, born Feb. 2, 1757, died in Portland, Aug. 6, 1836, particularly 
mentioned in another place. Eunice, born Sept. 9, 1759, married Eben'r Storei » 
Nov. 10, 1785, and died Oct. 14, 1798, leaving issue. Benjamin, born July 26, 
1761, died in Brunswick, Sept. 30, 1848, the last survivor. Ann, born Oct. 28, 
1763, married Woodbury Storer Dec. 24, 1780, died Nov. 3, 1788, leaving issue. 
He/ir?/, born March 11, 1766, died unmarried in 1829. 117// iam, born Dec. 15, 
1767, died April 18, 1786, unmarried. Mary and Elizabeth, born 1769, died 
young. Jeremiah, born Aug. 18, 1771, died Aug. 9, 1777. Joshua, born Nov. 30 
1774, died Nov. 14, 1776. These are all dead, and no descendants of the name in 
this branch remaui, but the sons of Benjamin, none of whom live here. 

*Andrew'8 children were Sally, Ann married Moses Quimby, Mary married Levi Quimhy, 
and .Almira married Luther Fitch ; one son died voung. 



beane's diary. 377 

October 30. Ordination of St. I dined and lodged at Chute's. * 

INovember 7. College meeting. (14.) Overseers met. 

December 21. Academy meeting. ' 

(At the end of this year, 431 dwelling houses.) 

(Dr. Deane this year makes the following communication, I suppose 
to Mr. Freeman, as I find it among his papers, endorsed by him, 
" Portland is a peninsula taken from the town of Falmouth, and 
incorporated as a town in 1786, consisting of about 1000 acres, 
besides several neighboring islands. The lands are some clay, and 
the rest gravel and sand. The town contains one Episcopal Church, 
one Unitarian Society,' two Congregational ditto, one Quaker 
meeting-house. The number of dwelling houses at the end of last 
year, was 412 ; the number of families not less than 600. It is 
one hundred and twenty-seven miles N. E. of Boston, in latitude 
nearly 44° N.) 

1799. 

January 25. Mrs. Wise died, (widow of Joseph Wise and daughter 
of Moses Pearson.) 

April 7. Sabbath. No meeting ; I preached at New Casco. 

1. Ordination of Nathaniel Stone, of Windham, successor of Rev. Peter T. 
Smith. He was from Provincetown, Blass.; graduated at H. C. 1795, and waa 
dismissed Feb. 3, 1805. He moved to Naples, m Maine, and died in 1848. 

2. In February, 1794, an Act of Incorporation for an Academy in this town 
was procured, beuig the fourth in this State. In 1797, the Gen. Court granted to 
the Trustees a half township of land, provided a fund of ^3,000 should be formed. 
By the unwearied exertions of Samuel Freeman, foremost in every good work, the 
amount was obtained, to which the town was a liberal contributor to the amount of 
the lot and building first used by them, and !{i!l,000 in money, and the tract laid out 
and afterwards sold to Jos. E. Foxcroft for $4,000. The Academy was first opened 
in 1803, in the second story of the Centre school house, which the town gave to 
the Trustees, and which is still standing opposite Dr. D wight's Church, in Congress 
street. They continued to occupy this apartment until the new brick Academy 
was finished, in 1808, when they removed to it; it has ever since been improved 
for the purposes to which it was designed. 

3. Thomas Oxnard's meetings, held in the North School house, at the foot of 
Middle street. There is quite a mistake in the number of acres given as the con- 
tents of the town ; it contains more than double the number. 

48 



378 deane's diary. 

May 15. College meeting at Freeport. 23. Oxnard's funeral.' 
(He died May 20.) 

1. Thomas Oxnard, aged 59. He was the son of Thomas Oxnard, a merchant 
in Boston, and Mary, a daughter of John Osborne, of the same place, and was 
born there in 1740, as were also his brother Edward and sister Mary. His father 
died early, and his mother married, for her second husband, Samuel Watts, of 
Chelsea, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk County for more than 
twenty years, and who died in 1770. Judge Watts' son, Edward, having in 1765 
married Mary, the only sister of Thomas and Edward, the brothers followed her 
to this town, where they established their residence — Edward not until after he 
took his degree at Cambridge, in 1767. They both engaged in mercantile pursuits, 
and both became members of the Episcopal Society here, to which they were firm 
adherents, and became occasional readers. In 1768, Thomas married Martha, 
daughter of Gen. Preble, of this place, by whom he had ten children, viz : Polly, 
Thomas, moved to France, married a French lady, and died at Marseilles in 1840, 
leaving several children; Ebenezer, Enoch, Stephen D., ship master, died, leaving 
one son, who died without issue, and several daughters; Martha, married Edward 
Oxnard, son of Edward, and is living ; Mehitable, married Wm., son of Edward 
Oxnard, and is now living; Henry, a ship master and merchant, died in Boston 
suddenly, 1844, leaving two sons, Henry Preble and George ; Edward and John. 
His widow died Oct., 1824. In 1770, Mr. Oxnard was appointed Deputy Collector 
of the Customs under L yde ; in the subsequent controversy he took part with the 
Loyalists, and was consequently obliged to leave the country on the commencement 
of hostilities; in 1778 he was proscribed and his property confiscated. In 1782, a 
resolve passed the Gen. Court which permitted his wife to go to him at Penobscot, 
' with her two servant maids, and such part of her household goods as the select- 
men of Falmouth should admit." After the peace was established, he returned to 
Portland, renewed his mercantile pursuits, and 1787, the Episcopal Church being 
destitute of a minister, he officiated as reader until 1792, with a design of taking 
orders and entering the Church. But while pursuing his studies his religious 
opinions were changed by reading the writings of Mr. Lindsey, and Mr. Belsham, 
of London, and by a correspondence which he carried on with the latter, and Mr. 
Freeman, of the Stone Chapel in Boston ; so that he became disqualified for 
Episcopal ordination, and separated from that Society. He did not, however, 
relinquish preaching; a few of his former hearers who had, with him, adopted 
Unitarian views, followed him to a school house, and attended upon his ministra- 
tions; among these were Dr. Coffin's family. Dr. Erving, Daniel George, Enoch 
Ilsley and James Deering. He occasionally preached discourses written by him- 
self, but generally read the sermons of other clergymen. He was a man of 
good mind, and unimpeached character and virtues; and his children, brought up in 
honor and integrity, bear witness to his elevated sentiments and his moral worth. 
He was tall in bus person, and thin, but of good presence, and diffijrent from his 
brother, who was corpulent as well as tall. He was more fond of study and 



djeane's diary. 379 

June 5. Association at Mr. Kellogg's. 24. Capt. Stoddard's 
oration, (Masonic.) ' 30. Sabbath. Our Sacrament — 70. No 
meeting below. 

July 4. Capt. Stoddard delivered the oration. 

September 2. Association meeting at Standish ; G. preached. 
(Mr. Gilman, N. Yarmouth.) 

October 9. Ordination at Stroudwater. (Rev. Caleb Bradley.) 
15. I prayed and dined with the Court. 

Dwelling houses erected this year, 28. 

The Dr.'s receipts this year have considerably advanced, being 
£393, 'l9s. 8d., and his expenditures, £221, 17s. 6d. 

1800. 

January 7. At 8 A. M., military mourning. (Probably Wash- 
ington's death.) 9. Mr. Gregg preached. (23.) Mr. Gregg preached. * 
May 10. Countess of R. dined here. ^ 
July 6. Mr. Kirkland preached, (of Summer st. Church, Boston, 

meditatation than action — the latter was even irksome to him. His son Thomas, 
although he lived many years in France, and was connected by marriage with one 
of her admirable daughters, yet liis spirit was untra veiled; and when on his death 
bed, his wife asked for his dying request, he said, after giving all necessary direc- 
tions in regard to his family and affairs, that he was an American — that he never 
could forget his noble country ; he cherished it on his death bed, and his last 
request was that, instead of the usual winding sheet, he should be wrapt in the flag 
of his native land. This was complied with, and it excited the enthusiasm of 
the French, who saw in it a noble trait of character which they admired. It had 
a singularly dramatic effect. 

1. Capt. Stoddard was an officer in the army, and stationed here at that time. 
The barracks were then on the top of Munjoy's hill, erected in the Adams admin- 
istration, on occasion of the French war. The works were beautifully situated, 
commanding extensive views both seaward and over the land, and overlookmg the 
town. They were connected by a covered way with a breast work and battery, 
on the brow of the hill, southerly of the barracks. 

2. Wm. Gregg; he came here as a candidate for the Cape Elizabeth Parish, in 
which he was afterwards settled. He was born in Londonderry, graduated at 
Dart. College in 1787, and is now living at Andover, in this State. 

3. A daughter of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, in the Kingdom of 
Bavaria. He was born in Concord, Mass., but went to Europe, became quite 
distinguished for his philosophical and economical discoveries. He lived at Munich, 
and received his title there. He had connections in this city with whom his 
daughter visited. He died August 24» 1814, in France, aged 63. 



380 deane's diary. 

July 28. Meeting-house stage begun. (For repairs of the Old 
Church.) 31. Got off vane. 
December^. Rode to Dunstan. (10.) Ordination at Dunstan. ' 
At the end of this year, 495 houses in Portland. 

1801. 

Fehruary 22. I changed with Mr. Hilliard. * 

May 1. I prayed with Circuit. Court. ' 2. I dined with the Court 
at Esq. Davis's. (Daniel.) 3. Judges at meeting. • 

July 9. College meeting, lodged at Mr. Martin's, N. Yarmouth, 

September 6. McKeen and H. dined here. 13. Sabbath. McTCeen,* 
A. M., Hitchcock, P. M ; our Sacrament, 68 communicants present. 

October 1. Fencing Cumberland street. (Then first laid out.) 
25. Sacrament, 72 communicants. 

Becemler 1. District Court — no prayers. 

1802. 

Jamiary 28. Four days sledding all that has been this winter. 

May 18. I prayed S. J. C. Rode to N. Yarmouth. 19. Rode to 
Brunswick with Mr. M. (Wm. Martin.) 20. Finished business at 
2 P. M. (College business.) 

July 2. Dr. Lothrop arrived. (Of Boston.) 4. Sabbath. Dr. 
Lothrop and Mr. H. preached. 7. Mr. Payson here. 

August 8. Our Sacrament, 65. 22. No meeting; I was very 
sick. 29. Mr. McKeen, P. M. 

1. Nathaniel Tilton, a native of Kensington, N. H., graduated at H. C. 1796, 
and is still living in Scarborough, although not in the pastoral relation — that having 
been dissolved a few years since. 

2. Rev. Timothy Hilliard; he was employed that year to preach to the Episco- 
pal Society in this town, and continued their stated preacher until 1808. He was 
son of Rev. Timothy Hilliard, of Cambridge, and graduated at H. C. 1793. He 
died at Gorliam in 1842. 

3. Circuit Court of the United States, held here for the first time under the new 
law. The Judges were John Lowell, of Boston, Benj. Bourne, of Rhode Island, 
and Jeremiah Smith, of N. H. Silas Lee vvas District Attorney, Levi Lincoln, 
Attorney General, Isaac Parker, afterwards Chief Justice of Mass., Marshal, 
David Sewall was District Judge, and Henry Sewall, Clerk. 

4. The McKeen was probably Joseph McKeen, who next year entered upon 
Jus duties as president of Bowdom College. 



DEANe's UlARY, 381 

August 30. Sat out for Brunswick ; Mr. A. and 1 lodged at Mr. 
Johnson's.' 31. I sat with Committee of Laws ; dined C. Coffin's. 

September 1. College meeting.' (2.) Sat again on Thursday 
from 4 P. M. 3. Sat again till evening. 19. Sabbath. Our Sacra- 
ment, 61. (Communicants present.) 

November 25. State Thanksgiving in three States. 

1803. 

January 1. Funeral of J. O. Watts.' 

American Board of Agriculture. OJicers — The Hon. James 
Madison, President. Messrs. Samuel L. Mitchell and George Logan, 
V. Presidents. Isaac Briggs, Secretary. Jos. Nourse, Treasurer. 
Committee of Corresponde7ice in Massachusetts — Hon. John Q. Adams, 
Joseph B. Varnum, Peleg Wadsworth, and Rev. Samuel Deane, D. D. 

January 1 . There are 26 brick dwelling houses in town. ^ 

Api-il 22. 1 planted Lombardy poplars. * 

May 17, I rode to Brunswick. (18.) Meeting in Massachusetts' 
Hall. (One of the College buildings.) 

Leontodon blossomed May 2 ; Pear, May 21 ; Apple, May 26. 

July 3. I preached at Gorham and administered Sacrament. 4. 
Hilliard delivered oration. (Rev. Timothy Hilliard.) 

August 7. Sabbath. No meeting, for the painted peAvs. 21. 
Sacrament, 57. 30. Academy meeting adjourned to the day after the 
arrival of Preceptor — this day fortnight. ^ 

1. Alfred Johnson, settled at Freeport, the first minister there, Dec. 29, 1789, 
and remained there until 1805 ; he afterwards moved to Belfast. He was born in 
Plainfield, Conn., and graduated at Dart. College, 1785. Alfred and Ralph C. 
Johnson, of Belfast, are his sons. 

2. Bowdoin College was just gomg into operation; Dr. Deane was Vice Presi- 
dent, and took great interest in its affairs. 

3. Son of Dr. Edward Watts, aged 25; he married Nabby Cheney, of Boston, 
in 1800. 

4. For some account of these, reference is made to a subsequent page. 

5. These were exceedingly popular trees at that time, and the rage for planting 
them extended over the country; for a few years after that, Portland was full of 
them; now there is hardly one to be seen — none so poor to do them reverence. 
Their tall and graceful figures and rapid growth encouraged their introduction; but 
they were short lived, dirty and injurious by their roots to walls and the soil. 

6. The expected Preceptor, and the first who entered upon instruction at the 
Academy, was Edward Payson, afterwards the distinguished preacher in this 
uown. He received his degree the same year.. 1S03, at Harvard College, and after 



382 deane's diary. 

October 2. Sabbath. Dr. Kirkland, A. M., Dr. McKeen preached 
P. M. Our Sacrament, 72. 5. Annual meeting of Benevolent 

a short visit to his family in New Hampshire, commenced his school. He con- 
tinued in charge of the Academy until the summer of 1806, when he was 
succeeded by Ebenezer Adams, a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 
1791. He remained two years, when he accepted the office of instructer in Exeter 
Academy, and afterwards became a Professor of Languages in Dartmouth College. 
His supcessor was Rev. Wm. Gregg, who was followed successively by Nathaniel 
H. Carter, Nathaniel Wright, and Bezaleel Cushnian, all of whom were graduates 
of Dartmouth College, in the class of 1811. The latter held the office, faithfully 
discharging its duties, twenty-six years. Mr. Payson's compensation was $f600. 
The following catalogue of pupils, at two different periods, will mterest at least 
those of the old scholars who still survive; the first, in March, 1806, contains the 
names of forty-three boys; the last, in 1807, under Mr. Adams, embraces seventy 
boys and girls, who by a new arrangement attended together : 

In March, 1806, their names were as follows, viz: John Alden,* Benj. Alden,* 
George Bangs,* Charles Blake, John P. Boyd, Edward Cobb,* Edward Codman, 
John Cox, John A. Douglass, Charles Freeman, George Freeman,* Samuel Gibbs,* 
Wm. Gibbs,* Jolm How, Daniel How,* Richard Hunnewell,* Henry Hunnewell,* 
Thomas Hooper, Joseph S. Jewett, Luther Jewett, George Jewett, Joseph M. 
Kellogg, Charles Kimball, Charles Mussey, Christopher Morton,* Edward Parker, 
Samuel Shaw, John P. B. Storer,* Robert B. Storer, Bellamy Storer, George 
Tucker,* Daniel Tucker,* Lemuel Tucker,* Thomas Turner,* Charles Vaughan,* 
Francis Waldo,* Wm. T. Waldo,* Alexander Wadsworth, Harry Waite,* Stephen 
Waite, Henry Warren,* Nathan Weston, Wm. Willis. 

In 1807; Boxjs, Benjamin Alden,* Joshua Alden,* George Bangs,* John P. 
Boyd, Charles Brooks, John Cox, Henry Cross,* Samuel Chadwick, John A. 
Douglass, George Deering,* James F. Deering,* Charles Freeman, George Free- 
man,* Samuel Gibbs,* Thomas Hodges,* Henry Hunnewell,* Thomas Hooper, 
George T. Ingraham, John Ingraham, Frederick Kent,* Joseph ]\I. Kellogg, Chas. 
Lovis,* Luther Jewett, George Jewett, Charles Mussey, Thomas Moulton, Christo- 
pher Morton,* Clement Paine,* John P. B. Storer,* Robert Storer, Bellamy Storer, 
Charles Storer, Thomas Turner,* Stimpson Turner, Lemuel Tucker,* Daniel 
Tucker,* Francis Tukey,* Charles Vaughan,* Peleg Wadsworth, Wm. T. Waldo,* 
Stephen Waite, Henry Warren, Charles Whitman, Wm. Willis, 44. Girls, 
Amelia Adams,* Mary Boyd, Harriet Deering, Dorcas Deering, Nabby Dupee,* 
Frances Dwight, Rebecca Fox, Lucy Goodwin,* Sally Head, Martha C. Hall,* 
Nancy Harding, Mary Jewett, Elizabeth Kimball, Elizabeth Lewis, Lydia McLel- 
lan, Mary McLellan, Irene McLellan, Harriet McLellan,* Ann Nichols,* Almu-a 
Nichols,* Enmia Motley, Arixene Southgate,* Charlotte Stone,* Elizabeth Titcomb, 
Mary O. Vaughan, Sally Waldo,* 26. 

In the first list of 43, twenty-one are known to be dead, twenty known to be 



Those marked * are known to be dead. 



deane's diary. 383 

Society. ' I dined with E. Preble and others at Capt. Robison's. 
16. Sabbath. I preached A. M. at 2nd Parish in Portland ; Mr. 
Johnson here. Habui mecum initio A7ini $87 16. (His receipts 
were about $1600 ; and he had for two or three years been making 
investments in Bank and Insurance stocks — the Portland and Maine 
Banks, and the Fire and Marine Insurance Companies, having 
been recently incorporated. His marriage fees in 1S03, for seventeen 
weddings, were $48 85; in 1805, for twenty-one weddings, they were 
$57 30.) 

End of the year, 581 dwelling houses. 

• ' 1804. 

March 10. Saturday, third week ; Court ended. * 

April 20. I preached a lecture at Dr. Goddard's. ^ 

June 6. Association at Mr. Stone's, (Windham.) I preached. 

living; in the list of 70, twenty-two boys, or one-half of their number are known to 
be dead, and ten girls; and twenty boys and fourteen girls are known to be living. 
Nineteen of the 26 girls are known to have been married, and three not to have 
been. 

1. This excellent Charity was incorporated this year. The first officers were 
Samuel Deane, President, E. Kellogg, Vice President, Robert Boyd, Treasurer, 
Wm. Synimes, Secretary. The managers were the foregoing, together with 
Mathew Cobb, Samuel Freeman, Joseph H. Ingraham, Lemuel Weeks, Stephen 
Longfellow and Joshua Rogers. It is a striking fact that some one or more of 
these persons, then in affluent circumstances, were afterwards reduced to want by 
the vicissitudes of the times, and received aid from the Society. Another striking 
fact is that Mr. Longfellow, the last survivor of all the fii-st officers, contmued by 
successive elections one of the managers to the time of his death, in 1849 — forty- 
six years. Mr. Kellogg and Mr. Freeman also continued managers to near the close 
of their lives. The Society is still as useful and active as ever. 

2. Court of Common Pleas, then consisting of Wm. Gorham and Stephen 
Longfellow, of Gorham, and Robert Southgate, of Scarboro' ; John Waite, Sheriff, 
Samuel Freeman, Clerk. The business of this Court had rapidly increased; in 
1799, the entries were 593; the present year they were 1277, and went on increas- 
ing until 1807, when they were 2422, higher than they were ever before or since. 

3. Dr. Thacher Goddard came here from Kennebunk, and carried on mercantile 
business actively for a few years, and then moved to Boston, where he died, 
leaving a large family. One of his daughters married Augustus Peabody, Esq., 
another Wm. Goddard, a third Francis O. Watts, Esq. 



381 deane's diary. 

July \. Sacrament, 75 communicants. 4. Longfellow andJevvett, 
orators. ' 

1, James C. Jewett, son of Joseph Jewett, of this city. He graduated at H. 
C. 1800, and commenced the practice of law here, but left it in a few years for an 
appointment in the Custom House. His oration was on the democratic side of 
politics. He died in 1824, without having been married. 

Stephen Longfellow ; he was on the federal side, and his oration was published. 
He was son of Stephen Longfellow, who was born in that part of Falmouth whicii 
is now Portland, in 1750, the son of Stephen, the first of the name who came 
here. They lived fronting the beach, below India street, until the town was burnt, 
ill 1775, when they all moved to Gorham, where Stephen, the subject of our 
notice, was born, March 23, 1776, and where his father and grandfather died — the 
latter May 1, 1790, aged 67 ; the former. May 25, 1825, aged 74. His mother 
was Patience, daughter of Job Young, of York, who was born 1755, married to 
his father December 13, 1773; she died August 12, 1830, aged 85. Their children 
were 'I'abitha, married to the Hon. Lathrop Lewis, of Gorham, 1794; Stephen, 
Abigail, married to Col. Samuel Stephenson, of Gorham, and Samuel, who married 
Sophia Storer, of Saco, and died in 1818, aged 29, leaving one child. Stephen, 
the snbj'jct of our notice, entered Harvard College at the age of 18, and graduated 
with honor in 1798, in the class with Judge Story, Dr. Channing and Dr. Tucker- 
man; after which he commenced the study of law in this town with Salmon Chase, 
iuid was admitted to the bar here in 1801. There were then but eight lawyers in 
the county, viz : JohnFrothingham, Daniel Davis, Wm. Symmes, James D. Hop- 
kins, George E. Vaughan, of Portland, Ezekiel Whitman, of New Gloucester, and 
Peter O. Alden, of Brunswick, all of whom are dead but Chief Justice Whitman, 
who was born the same month and year as Mr. Longfellow, and still remains in full 
vigor of body and mind, after having filled the office of Judge of the Common 
Pleas and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court twenty-six years, with honor to 
himself and usefulness to the State. Mr. Longfellow, by his integrity, his patient 
industry, his intelligence and fidelity to his clients, soon seized upon a very exten- 
sive practise, which he retained for more than 30 years; and in a Bar distinguished 
for legal talent and the general ability of its members, became a leader m the 
practice. This Bar has furnished one Judge of the Supreme Court of RIass., three 
Chief Justices and five Justices of the Supreme Court of Maine, one Chief Justice and 
one associate Justice of the Common Pleas, one Reporter of the Decisions of the 
Supreme Court, one Solicitor General of Massachusetts, Daniel Davis, one Judge 
of the District Court of the United States, two United States Senators, nine Rep- 
resentatives in Congress, one Minister Plenipotentiary, one Governor of Maine, 
and numerous other officers in important trusts. 

In 1814, Mr. Longfellow being then a Representative to the General Court of 
Massachusetts, was elected a member of the Hartford Convention, with Judge 
Wilde, then of this State. In 1822, he was elected a member of Congress, in 
which he continued one term; he preferred the pursuit of his profession to any 



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JiiJy 9. Began painting meeting house. 25. Association at 
Mr. Bradley's. Judge G.'s funeral. * 

August 12, Sacrament, 67. One private baptism. 

September 7. Tlie new bell got up. (This weighed 1500 pounds, 
and was procured from England.) 

October 5. Got in blue pearmains, eight and a half bushels. 16. 
Six funerals this day. (Two were children in his own parish.) 

At the end of this year, 622 dwelling houses in Portland. 

(On the 4th of September, of this year, Henry Wadsworth, son of 
Gen. Wadsworth, lost his life before the walls of Tripoli, by the 
explosion of a fire ship sent by Com. Preble to destroy the Tripolitan 
navy : his companions were Somers, Israel and others, who fearlessly 
sacrificed their lives, rather than fall into the hands of the enemy. 

other employment, and continued faithfully and honorably in the discharge of its 
duties, until a fatal disease, epilepsy, which first attacked him in 1822, brought on 
by excessive labor in his profession, gradually and slowly weakened his powers, and 
prostrated his physical energy. He did not wholly retire from practice until three or 
four years before his death. In 1828, he received from Bowdoin College the well 
deserved diploma of L. L. D. — ^While he continued to bear the burden of his 
profession, in his palmy days, no man in that profession, anywhere, more faithfully, 
honorably and ably, discharged all its duties, or more justly won its laurels. 

In private life he was distinguished for kindness and fidelity in the domestic 
relations, and universal benevolence. He was prompt and punctual in an emment 
degree in all his engagements, and no office which devolved upon him was in any 
degree neglected. He was eminently conservative, and while he yielded a candid 
consideration and a sound judgment to every proposition for improvement or progress, 
he conceded nothing to hasty, or rash, or one sided schemes. His judgment was 
calm, clear and cool; but his heart was full of generous impulses for the cause of 
truth and humanity. He was forty-six years an officer of the Portland Benevolent 
Society, and many years a constant and exemplary member of the First Church, in 
this city. 

In January, 1804, he married Zilpha Wadsworth, eldest daughter of Gen. Peleg 
Wadsworth, with whom he lived over forty-five years in uninterrupted happiness, 
and found her a true counsellor and friend. They had four sons and four daughters, 
viz: Stephen, Henry W., Alexander W., Sanmel, Elizabeth, Anne, Mary and 
Ellen, all of whom, with their mother, survive, but Elizabeth and Ellen. The name 
of Stephen, which was borne by his father, grandfather and great grandfather, has 
descended to his son and grandson. 

1. Judge Wm. Gorham, one of the early settlers of Gorham, and from whom, 
or whose family, the town was named. He came from Barnstable, Mass. ; was 
appointed Judge of Probate in 1782, and Judge of the Court of Comniou Pleas in 
1787, and held both at the time of his death. 
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380 deawe's diary. 

Lt. Wadsworth was in the 20th year of his ago, and a young man of 
great promise. A monument to this noble sacrifice stands at tho 
western front of the capitol, in Washington, erected by government, 
and another, in the eastern cemetery of this city, was erected by his 
friends to the memory of Wadsworth, and to commemorate the event.) 

1805. 

Jamtary 1. I preached before the Association. 6. Sabbath. Dr. 
McKeen and lady dined here, and he preached for me. 

Aipril 5. Death of S. F., half past 3, P. M. (Sally Freeman, at 
his house, aged 54.) 10. Sally's funeral. 

Ju7ie 4. (Started for Boston with his brother John.) 7. Kode to 
Charlestown ; lodged at Dr. Goddard's. (Thacher Goddard, formerly 
of this town.) 8. This day at Mr. Preble's. (Ebenezer, who had 
moved to Boston.) 9. P. M. preached for Dr. Kirkland. New 
South, Summer street.) 22. Got home. 24. At Mr. Bray's oration. 
(0. Bray, Esq., an Attorney; Masonic.) 

July 1. Deacon Storer's roof taken off. (House in Free street, 
now McCcbb's; third story added.) 8. Fire in the night. 

August 7. Rode to outlet with Com. Preble. 13. Funerals of 
Mrs. S. and Mrs. Boyd. ' 22. Mrs. Preble's funeral. ^ 

September 12, 13, 14. End of distressing drought. 17. Rev. Asa 
Packard here. 30. Mrs. Jenk's funeral. 

October 16. I prayed at the funeral of Madam Browne, (widow of 
Rev. Thomas Browne.) 29. I was at wedding. (Henry Ilslej'' to 
Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur McLellan.) 

December 7. Dined at Capt. Tucker's. ^ 8. Mr. Ely preache^l P. 
M. (As a candidate for colleague to Dr. Deane ; afterwards settled 
in Philadelphia.) 

1. Wives of David Smith and Robert Boyd; the former 58, the latter 38 — 
mother and daughter. Mr. Smith came from Nova Scotia, and lived at the foot of 
Union street. Mr. Homer, Parker Usley, and Ezekiel Day married his daughters, 
as well as Mr. Boyd. Mrs. Boyd was the mother of all the children of Mr. Boyd. 
They are still residing among us. 

2. Mehitable, widow of Gen. Preble and daughter of Joshua Bangs, aged 77. 
See note to Smith's Journal, 1784, page 251. 

3. Capt. Daniel Tucker, then one of the most active and intelligent merchants 
in the town. He was son of Josiah Tucker, a sailmaker, who came here from 
Kittery, a young man, and in 1752 married Mary Thrasher, by whom he had tea 
children. See aote to Smith's Journal, 1774, page 225. 



deane's diary. S87 

1806. 

June 16. Fair ; great eclipse of the sun, beginning 14 minutes 
past ten, touching the centre 55 minutes past ten ; greatest obscura- 
tion, 34 minutes past eleven; moon leaves the sun's centre 50 
minutes past eleven; end of the eclipse, 54 minutes past twelve. 
Digits eclipsed, eleven ; duration, 2 hours 40 minutes. 

July 4. Democratic oration, by French. Federal, Payson, (Edw.) 
At neither, though invited to both. ' 

August 18. The 2nd Parish meeting. * 

September 3. Violent rain storm and wind. 4. Thursday. Rainy. 
Commencement at Brunswick. ^ (5.) I got home. 23. Mr. Burr 
called here. (Probably Aaron, late Vice President.) 

October 29. W. Simonton found dead. * 

1807. 

On the first blank leaf, this year, is the following entry: 

Broken Mercha?its this year. John Taber and Son, Dr. Stephen 

1. I attended Mr. Payson's oration, being then one of his pupils at the 
Academy, and recollect that it v.'as received with the greatest delight. Many- 
pungent hits at the then national administration received hearty applause. It was 
very spicy and spirited. The great interest which Mr. McKeen, afterwards Prof, 
of Rhetoric at H. C, seemed to take in the oration, particularly attracted me; his 
very peculiar, bright and intelligent countenance was radiated with an anunated 
and joyous expression through the whole, and particularly when the administration 
was roughly handled. He was a liigh toned Federalist. 

2. The object of this meeting was to take maasures to procure a candidate, as 
a colleague with Dr. Deane ; a CommiUee was chosen for the purpose. The vote 
was annulled in April, 1807, and a Committee chosen to procure an assistant. la 
pursuance of which vote several persons were employed, among whom were Rev. 
Martin L. Hurlbert, of Dover, IJ. H., Rev. Joshua Huntington, of Conn., Rev. 
Daniel Kimball, of Haverhill, Rev. Samuel Cary, and others. 

3. This was the fii-st commencement at Bowdom College : the graduating class 
consisted of seven, viz : Richard Cobb, Isaac F. Coffin, Benj. Titcomb, of tliis 
town, John M. O'Brien, of Brunswick, Moses Q,uinby, of Westbrook, George 
Thorndike, of Beverly, and Jolm Davis. Coffin, O'Brien and Quinby, survive. 
The day was exceedingly stormy; a great conjpany assembled, attracted by the 
novelty of the occasion — the first literary festival in Maine. The accommodations 
were altogether too narrow for the crowd, so that many persons slept in barns, and 
got such poor entertainment as good luck or good management enabled them to 
seize. It commenced raining on Monday, and did not cease until Thursday night. 

4. Walter Simonton, a merchant here, supposed to have di'owucd liiinself. He 
was found at Clark's point, on the beach. 



388 deane's diary. 

Cummings, Ebcn'r Storcr, Samuel Stephenson, Pritchard <Sc Barae- 
villc, David Green, Weeks &c Son, Jos. McLcllan & Son, Stephen 
McLellan & Browne, D. Tucker & Thurston. ' 

Other failures followed, viz: — Thomas Webster, owner of a 
number of large ships ; Jos. H. Ingraham, the largest holder of real 
estate in town; Stevens & Hovey, Jacob Noyes, Thomas Cross, 
Wm. Vaughan, Neal Shaw, James Fosdick, Munroe &: Tuttle, 
Samuel Butts, David Hale, Daniel Johnson, Todd &c Worthley, 
Woodbury Storer, &c. 

January 10. Mr. Symmes' funeral. ' 

1. These were among the principal merchants of the town, and largely engaged 
in navigation, whose occupation and means of success were suddenly blasted by 
the non-intercourse act of 1806, followed by the embargo law of 1807, which laid 
up the numerous and valuable vessels of our merchants to perish in the docks, 
Taber & Son were Quakers, and so great was the confidence in their honesty and 
ability, that their promises, issued in the shape of bank bills, were as current as the 
bills of any bank; they were called " Taber's bills." Many poor people suffered 
by their failure. The number of failures increased next year, and the business of 
the town was wholly prostrated ; in two years the navigation fell off 9000 tons, from 
an aggregate of 39,009 which it had reached in 1807. In 1793 the tonnage con- 
sisted of 13 ships, 24 brigs, 23 schooners and 20 sloops, vvliich yearly increased 
until 1807. 

2. Wm. Symmes, aged 45 ; he died January 7. His ancestor who first came to 
this country, was Zachariah Symmes, Rector of the Parish of Dunstable, England, 
1625 to 1633, and which latter year he arrived in this country. He was the son of 
the Rev. Mr. Symmes, of Andover, and graduated at H. C. in 1780. He was a 
member of the Convention of Massachusetts, wliich adopted the Constitution of the 
United States, and was at first opposed to the adoption; but listening to the arguments 
and persuasive appeals of Parsons and others, he at length yielded to it his assent. 
In 1790, he came to Portland, where he took high rank, if not the first, at the 
Cumberland bar; he brought with him a high reputation for scholarship as well as 
for legal acquirements, and was the leader as an advocate m all important causes. 
His style was stately but graceful, and his manners formal. He was never married, 
and his death was hastened probably by a too free habit of living. 

Very different in this respect was his rival at the bar, Salmon Chase, who came 
here the year before him, and died at the same age, August 10, 1806. He was the 
son of Samuel Chase, of Cornish, N. H., and graduated at Dartmouth College, in 
1785, where his five brothers were educated. He was a man of unmipeachable 
integrity and honor, and had the confidence of all who loiew him, by which he 
secured a very large and increasmg business. No lawyer in the county ever had a 
greater practice than ftlr. Chase; ho was not an eloquent advocate, but a safe and 
judicious counsellor, and faithful to the interest of liis clients. He v/as twice 



deane's diary. 389 

January 16. Rev. Mr. Noyes died. (19.) Rev. Mr. Noyes' 
funeral. * 

April 14. I had two funerals to attend. (Wife of Mr. Davis, 
aged 19, and son of Mr. Scott, 26.) 19. Ice lasted in the little 
garden till this day. (20.) Snow in garden. 30. Received eighteen 
books and tracts for lending to parishioners. 

Jtdy 4. Two orations delivered — by Whitman and Lincoln. " 14. 
Funeral of Capt. Adams, ^ &c. 

married, first to Miss Stiinpson,of Portsmouth, N. H., by whom he had one son, 
George, who graduated at II. C, 1818, and died 1819; a very promising young man. 
His second wife was the widow of Samuel Waldo, a merchant in this town, who 
died in 179S, leavmg three sons, Samuel, Francis and Wm. She had one daughter 
by Mr. Chase, who married Dr. Howard of Boston, and is still living. 

The Bar of Cumberland was, in 1806, one of the most distinguished in the 
State. The lawyers then belonging to it, beside Messrs. Chase and Symmes, 
were Isaac Parker, John Frothingham, Premiss Mellen, Ezekiel Whitman, 
James D. Hopkins, Stephen Longfellow and George Vaughan, who all resided in 
Portland; and Peter O. Alden m Brunswick; Mr. Mellen and Mr. Whitman came 
here in that year, the former from Biddeford, the latter from New Gloucester, and 
both became Chief Justices of the Supreme Court. Mr. Mellen held the office of 
Chief Justice from the separation of the State, in 1820, to 1833, when he was 
disqualified by age; he died Dec. 30, 1840, aged 77. Mr. Whitman, after having 
faithfully discharged the duties of Judge in the Common Pleas nineteen years, and 
at the head of the Supreme Court seven years, retired to private life, and is still 
living. Mr. Parker was bora in Boston, in 1768, graduated at H. C, 1786, and 
commenced practice at Castine, in this State ; was twice chosen Representative to 
Congress, from the Eastern District, and during his last term, in 1799, was appomted 
Marshal of Maine. In that year he moved to Portland, and held the office until 
1804. In 1806, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court m Massachusetts, 
and moved to Boston; in 1814 Chief Justice, and died in the office in 1830, 
universally respected. 

1. Rev. Jeremiah Noyes, born in Newburyport, graduated at Dart. Col., 1799; 
settled at Gorham. 1803. 

2. Ezekiel Whitman and Daniel Waldo Lincoln, both lawyers, the first federal, 
the other democratic. Mr. Lincoln died in the prime of life, a victim to intempe- 
rance, lie was son of Levi Lincoln the elder, of Worcester, and a man of brilliant 
talents. 

3. The schooner Charles, Capt. Adams, bound from Boston to Portland, on tho 
evening of the 12th, run on the reef at Richmond's Island in the fog, and was totally 
lost; of twenty-two persons on board, mostly passengers, sixteen perished, among 
whom were the captaiii and his wife and several ladies. Richard A. Jenks, son of 



390 deane's diary. 

July 17. Funeral of President McKeen ; ' I lodged at Dr. Porter's. 
August 27. Com. Preble's funeral, * 

Deac. Jenks of this town, was among the lost. This sad disaster, one of the most 
fatal which had ever happened to a packet between the two places, produced a 
great sensation in this community. Mr. Richards and Mr. Sidney Thaxter, both of 
this town, were two of the six saved. 

1. The death of the Rev. Joseph McKeen, in the 50th year of his age, first 
President of Bowdom College, was an afflictive event to that rising institution, and 
to the people with wliom he had connected himself. His death was sudden and 
miexpected; he was cut off in the midst of labors the most useful to the College, 
and which entitled him to be called its second founder. Dr. Deane thus announced 
the fact, July 15th, to his friend Deac. Freeman: 

" Thursday, 5 o'clock. 

Dear Mr. Freeman, — Our beloved President expired yesterday at 4 P. M. The 
funeral will be to-morrow at 2 P. M., at which Mr. Abbott requests you to attend. 
I hope you will be able to go, Samuel Deane." 

The services at the funeral were, a prayer by Mr. Lancaster of Scarborough, a 
sermon by Dr. Deane, from Job iii., 19, — "The small and the great are there;" a 
prayer by the Rev. Mr. Packard, of Wiscasset, and an eulogy by the Rev. Mr. Jenks 
of Bath. Of these, Mr. Jenks is the only survivor. 

Mr. McKeen graduated at Dart. Col. in 1774, and was settled in the ministry at 
Beverly, Mass. His reputation as a scholar and a Christian attracted the favorable 
regard of the Corporation of the College, when they were seeking for the most 
suitable man to build up and inspire confidence in the institution. They were 
smgularly successful in their choice, and the College, under his management, had 
acquired a high reputation. His three sons, Joseph, John and James, still live in 
Brunswick, and are officially and usefully connected with the College. His eldest 
daughter, Anne, married David Dunlap,of Brunswick, and died May 15, 1849, 
aged 60, leavuig one daughter. Another daughter, Alice, married William J. 
Farley, of Thoniaston, and died in 1827. 

2. The life, services and character of Edward Preble are deeply impressed on 
the pages of history, and will always remain a cheering incentive, and a bright 
example to all who seek fame in the warrior departments of life. He was a man 
of remarkable coolness and energy of character, and no less distinguished for 
promptness of action, than for soundness of judgement. His early death, in the 
46th year of his age, deprived his country of a citizen who, by his sagacity, his 
experience and his energy, would have rendered her invaluable services either in 
the cabinet or on the quarter deck, during the war of 1812, and the dark period of 
irresolute and inefficient coimsels and action which preceded it. 

He was the seventh son and ninth cliild of Gen. Jedediah Preble, and was born 
in this town in 1761. He, with most of the active young men of the place, selected 
the sea for the sphere of his occupation, and the field of his fame; and in the 
merchant service, uiid on board privateers, he was thoroughly trained to sea tactics 



deane's diary. 891 

September 11. N. Cross' Meeting house raising. * 

before he enlisted in the service of his country in 1796. How well he acquitted 
himself there, we need not stop to tell. Mr. Cooper, Mr. Sabine and other writers 
give the details. 

In 1801, March 17, he married Mary, the only daughter of Nathaniel Deering, 
by whom he had one son, Edward Deering, born February 20, 1806, and who died 
February 20, 1846, leavmg one son and two daughters, who, with their mother, 
reside with the aged widow. 

As soon as it was known that the Commodore was no more, a public meeting 
was called, and arrangements made to notice the melancholy occasion in a manner 
befitting it. On Thursday the funeral was attended with military honors, and the 
ceremonies of religion and Masonry. The bells were tolled from 8 to 9 in the 
morning, the colors were displayed at half mast from the shipping and all public 
buildings; at one o'clock the stores and shops were closed, and a total suspension 
of business took place for the remainder of the day. A large concourse of people 
from the neighboring towns attended the funeral; Dr. Deane made the prayer. 
Masonic rites were performed, and an extensive procession moved at the sound of 
solemn music to the place of interment. A more imposing scene had never before 
been witnessed in towTi. 

His place of residence was then in the house now occupied as a tavern, called 
the Casco House, having since undergone great changes. Then it was a venerable 
old fashioned house, two stories high, with a hipped roof ; the front yard extended 
to the street, ornamented with trees and shrubbery, and surrounded by a large old 
fashioned fence, suited to the style of the mansion. 

Commodore Preble had been engaged for a year before his death in erecting the 
beautiful and expensive house on the corner of Congress and Preble streets, on 
which he had spared no pains, but which, unfortunately, he was never destined to 
occupy. The widow, m a serene and tranquil old age, has since occupied it, 
dispensing the charities suited to her fortune and congenial to her disposition. 

1. Now the meeting-house of the 3d Parish, Rev. Mr. Dwight's. Mr. Nath'l 
Cross, in 1807, was instrumental iii organizing a new religious society, which was 
incorporated m the spring of 1808, as " The Third Congregational Society in 
Portland." Then- first preacher, though not settled, was Rev. Jonathan Sewall, 
and their meetuigs were held in a Hall until the Church was completed. Rev. 
Nathan S. Beeman was settled in 1810, but retired in 1812 on account of liis 
health. He was their first and last pastor; the society fell to pieces m 1814, and 
the members of the Church, twenty-five to thirty, amalgamated with the second 
Church. The meeting-house next passed to the " Chapel Congregational 
jSocze/y," which closed its existence in 1824; the meeting-house was sold in 1825 
to the 3d Parish, just then formed, and which the same year settled the Rev. 
Charles Jenkins as their pastor. Under his ministry it rapidly increased; but their 
hopes were sadly crushed by his sudden and untimely death in December, 1831. 
He was succeeded m 1832 by Rev. Wm. T. Dwight, the son of the estimable and 



392 deane's diary. 

October 8. Mr. Payson (Edward) preached Icctura 

December 11. Col. Tjmg died this evening.' 12, Jos. Tucker 

died this evening. 14. Mr. Payson here. 15. Dr. Buckminster 

here. 16. Ordination. ^ 

honored President of Yale College, under whose valued ministry the society is in a 
flourishing condition, receiving from him the best vigor of his intellectual and 
reliirious strength. The meeting-house was thoroughly renovated and modernized 
in 1848, and is now one of our neatest and most convenient houses of worship. 

1. Wm. Tyng, of Gorham; he was born in Boston, August 17, 1737, where 
he commenced Hfe as a merchant ; in 1767 he was appointed Sheriff of this 
county, and moved to Portland. In 1769 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Alex- 
ander Ross; he was representative from Falmouth in 1772 and 1773. He became 
a Loyalist, and was proscribed in 1778, having previously left the country. He 
returned in 1793 and settled at Gorham, where he died, leaving no issue. He was 
buried in Portland, services being performed in St. Paul's Church. His widow 
died in 1831. 

2. Rev. Edward Payson, over the 2d Church and Society in Portland. His 
father, of Rindge, N. H., preached the sermon, an exceedingly mteresting one, to 
a crowded audience. Mr. Kellogg made the consecrating prayer, and Dr. Buck- 
minster, of Portsmouth, delivered the charge. He was settled as colleague with 
the Rev. Elijah Kellogg. This connection was dissolved in 1811, and the whole 
duties devolved upon Mr. Payson. He became one of the most popular and 
effective preachers of the day ; to a deep religious feeling, he added an ardent and 
excited imagination, which gave a wonderful power to his ministrations, and drew 
around him a larger congregation and church than had ever before been gathered 
in New England to the stated services of the temple. The cold and hardened 
were aroused, the indifferent animated, and every one who listened to hhn were 
persuaded to be, if not altogether, at least almost, a clnistian. He possessed a 
wonderful influence over the passions of men, which he swayed almost at will, and 
what is most singular, his own heart was suffering all the while from the most sad 
and fearful doubts and forebodings as to his own spiritual condition — the eflect, 
probably, of feeble health, and a morbid, melancholy temperament. He seems at 
times to have had an apprehension kindred to St. Paul's, that while pointing to 
others the thorny way to heaven, he might himself become a castaway. These 
frequent periods of deep depression were succeeded by those of the highest excite- 
ment, and the most rapt joy; so that he was able to exclaim, as he did in the 
following language : " Had a most ravishing view of Christ this morning, as 
coming at a distance in the chariot of his salvation." " In an instant He was 
with me." " O, joy unspeakable and full of glory." 

Mr. Payson was born at Rindge, July 25, 1783, and entered H. C. a year in 
advance in 1800, and graduated with a good reputation in 1803. He immediately 
came to Pf rtlaud and took charge of the Academy, and continued in it until Aug., 



deane's diary. 393 

December 22. Installment of President. ' 

1808. 

January 17. Hay Market Row burnt. ^ 29. Soup charity begun. ' 

1806. On leaving this employment he devoted himself to preparation for the 
ministry, and in October drew up the following plan of life: " Resolved to devote in 
future twelve hours to study, two to devotion, two to relaxation, two to meals and 
family devotion?, and ?ix to sleep." But it is said that he abstracted from the 
latter period two hours. He had several applications to preach as a candidate ; 
among them were the Parish in Gorham, and Dr. Deane's Society in Tortlund. 
He gave the preference, however, to the invitation of the 2d Parish in Portland, in 
which field he continued to labor with growing popularity and great success, inter- 
rupted by intervals of sickness, until the over action of his sensitive nature and 
his arduous labors wore out his physical strength, and carried him to a "rest" 
to which his soul had often and ardently aspired, on the 22d day of October, 1827, 
at the age of 44, and in the 20th year of his ministry. 

On the 8th of May, 1811, he married Ann Louisa Shipman, of New Haven, 
Conn., by whom he had eight children — five sons and three daughters; four sona 
and two daughters survived, and are still living. His widow died November 17, 
1848, aged 64. His eldest daughter married the Rev. Dr. Hopkins, of Williams 
College, and his youngest, Rev. Mr. Prentiss, of New Bedford. 

1. Rev. Jesse Appleton, as successor of Dr. McKeen, in Bowdoin College. 
He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1792, and was settled at Hampton, N. H., 
when he was called to preside over the College. This he did with great ability, 
dignity and success, until his lamented death in 1819. 

2. Nearly the whole block of eight stores was destroyed, and much valuable 
property in them ; the fire was discovered about half past seven o'clock on Sunday 
morning; the ground was covered with snow from a recent storm. The stores 
were rebuilt the next summer. 

3. The disti'esses of the people, in consequence of the commercial restrictions, 
fell very severely upojithis town; the Diiluresand the stagnation of business threw 
a large body of industrious persons out of employment, and aggravated the suffer- 
ings of the poor; it was said that two of the failures before mentioned deprived 
three hundred persons, beside sailors, of the means of subsistence; the poor-house 
was crowded, and hundreds were denied even that provision, and it became 
necessary to resort to other means to prevent starvation. To this end, a soup house 
was established, where soup of an excellent quality was daily served out to the 
destitute, free of expense to them. The 13th of January was set apart by the town 
as a day of fasting and prayer on account of the gloomy aspect of affairs. 

From the Peace of '83 to 1807 the town had enjoyed uninterupted prosperity; 

its population had increased from about 1500 to 7000. The 100 dwelling houses 

which were left standing after the destruction of the town in '75 had increased, at 

the close of 1806, to 670, of which many were of brick, and some were costly 

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394 deane's diary. 

Ma7j 26. Drew tried. (Joseph Drew, for killing a man at Sacca- 
rappa, convicted and exected July 21.) 

Jicne. Sister Winslow died. 

J^dy 17. Mr. Gary preached. ' 

September 11. Mr. Codman preached. 25. Sacrament, 79. Mr. 
C.,P. M. 

Octobers. Church meeting to call Mr. Codman.' 26. Benevo- 
lent oration, $107. (Contribution.) 

structures, to the extent of from $-15,000 to S'20,000. As an indication of the 
depression of property, the most expensive of these hoBses were sold, in conse- 
quence of the failure of their ovvaiers, at prices varying from ift^'SjOOO to ^'4,000. 
The addition to the number of dwelling houses to 1815 did not exceed 50. 

If we look to the trade of the place, we shall find the same indications of pros- 
perity from 1783 to 1807. In 1784 there were 82 arrivals, of which two were 
ships, and 22 brigs, and two foreign vessels, one a ship of 350 tons; in 1785, Gd 
arrivals, in 1786, 68, in 1787, 89. In the latter year there was not a ship owned 
in town, the people being engaged principally in the West India and coasting trade, 
in a small class of vessels; in 1789 the amount of tons owned here was 5,000, in 
1793 it had increased to 11,173 tons, including 13 ships, 24 brigs, 23 schooners and 
20 sloops; the tonnage still went on increasing until 1807, when_ it amounted to 
39,009 tons. In two years it fell oif 9,000 tons. 

1. Mr. Samuel Gary, of Newburyport, afterwards settled at the Stone Chapel in 
Boston, as colleague with Dr. Freeman; he preached four Sabbaths. On the 14th 
of April, 1808, the Parish voted, with the consent of Dr. Deane, who was now infirm 
and unable to discharge the pastoral duties fully, to procure a colleague for him. 
The committee, consisting of Deacon Freeman, Mr. Matthew Cobb and Mr. Robert 
Boyd, applied to Mr. Cary to preach as a candidate, but his engagements prevented 
his coming before the 3rd Sabbath in July, and then not as a candidate, but only 
to supply the pulpit. The committee also applied to Rev. Joshua Huntington of 
Conn., afterwards settled in the Old South at Boston; Rev. Joseph McKeen, after- 
wards Prof, at Cambridge; Rev. S. C. Thatcher, afterwards of Summer street 
church in Boston ; Rev. John Codman, then recently returned from Europe, and 
several others ; but were disappointed in most quarters, and were unable to procure a 
regular supply. Mr. Cary's services were very acceptable; he was a fine scholar, 
an earnest preacher, and a man of great purity of character. It is a little sin<'ular 
that not one of the persons applied to as above is now living, nor either of the 
committee. 

2. Rev. John Codman, of Boston. He preached four Sabbaths, and the Church 
voted six to two, one blank, to invite him to a settlement as a colleague with Dr. 
Deane. The Dr. was very earnest to secure the services of Mr. Codman ; he found 
himself failing, he was past 75, and that it was absolutely necessary to the weil 



deane's diary. 395 

Ten dwelling iiouses built this year. ' 

1809. 

January 22. Sabbath. Mr. Nichols. ^ 29. Mr. Nichols preached— 
" Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." 

February 5. Mr. N. on Regeneration — " The wind bloweth," &c. 
27. Parish meeting. ^ 

being of his parish, that new appliances should be had for it. He thus writes to 
Mr. Freeman : 

" Portland, Sept. 2S, 1808. 

Dear Sir : — I rejoice that you are returned. I visited your office to-day, but 
you were gone to Probate Court. Mr. Codman has told me that he was under 
necessity to go home next week. I dread to be left alone, for I am not equal to 
preaching twice in one day. Mr. Codman is greatly admired by many. He is 
orthodox and ingenious, and I think he is very generally admired. I wish we may 
be directed to do what is best; and am your assured friend and humble servant, 

S. Deane." 

Notwithstanding this urgency, the society on the 17th of October voted not to 
concur in the call, only three voting in favor of it. The cause of his rejection was 
his religious tenets : the distinction was coming to be made between the two 
religous parties which divide the Congregational denomination ; the old Hishioned 
Arminianism and liberal Calvinism were ripening into Unitarianism, and Orthodoxy 
was taking a more dedided and exclusive type, and standing distinctly and firmly 
upon its own peculiar platform. Mr. Payson had a large share in giving distinct- 
ness and severity to this line of separation. He speaks in his correspondence of 
Mr. Codman as follows : " Sept. 14. Mr. C, a young gentleman of independent 
fortune, is now preaching in the old parish. He Las been studying divinity in 
Scotland, and preaches the doctrines of the gospel in a clear and distinguishing 
manner." What he means by the doctrines of the gospel will be seen in the next 
quotation. " Oct. 10. I have had some relief of late from Mr. C's. being here, 
at the old parish, and j)reaching such doctrine as I do." 

1. From 1807, the erection of buildings fell off rapidly, so that for ten or twelve 
years but few were built. The number in 1820 seems hardly to have been greater 
than in 1807, if the estimate made by the town in that year is correct, which it 
ought to be taken to be. By this estimate the various kinds of buildings were as 
follows: dwelling houses, 700; shops adjoining to dwelling houses, 61; other shops, 
260; distil houses, 6; ware houses, 66; tan houses, 7; slaughter houses, 7; rope 
walks, 5; iron works, 1; bake houses, 11; barns, 306; other buildings and edifices 
valued at £20 and upwards, 94. Nor had the population much increased during 
that space. 

2. Rev. Ichabod Nichols, who preached here four Sabbaths, as a candidate for 
settlement as colleague with Dr. Deane. 

3. This meetuig was called to see whether the Parish would concur with tha 



396 DKANk's D1A.KY. 

March 20. Mr. Nichols' answer. 

June 7. Ordination of Mr. Nichols. ' 11. Sabbath. Mr. Abbott— 

chuich ill an invitation to Mr. Nichols to settle with them, and voted unanimously to 
concur, and also voted a salary of §^1200. Mr. Freeman, in connnunicating these 
votes the next day, observes, " The meeting of the Parish was full and respectable, 
and it is a pleasing circumstance, that there was not a hand raised, nor a word 
spoken against the subject of either vote." An affirmative answer was received 
March 20th. 

1. This gratifying event was the third of the kind which had taken place in 
the Parish, since the establishment of the church, in 1727, a period of 82 years, 
and happily we have not yet had occasion for a fourth, although the time is extended 
to 123 years; a case wholly unparalleled in the religious history of this, and probably 
of any other country, and more especially when it is considered that for thirty- 
sLx years of that period, the Parish had two pastors at the same time, and never a 
day for the whole space without one. As we look through the Parish now, we can 
perceive quae a number of both men and women who have set under the preaching 
of all tliree of the pastors, and still contuiue constant worshippers in the ancient 
temple. 

The ordainmg council was composed of the Cumberland Association of Ministers, 
to which were added, by invitation of the pastor elect. Dr. Lathrop, Dr. Kirklaiid, 
and Mr. Buckminster of Boston, Mr. Cary of Newburyport, Dr. Barnard of Salem, 
and Mr. Abbott of Beverly ; the venerable Dr. Lathrop was moderator. The services 
were performed as follows: tlie first prayer by Dr. Kirkland, sermon by Dr. Barnard, 
the pastor and instructor of Mr. Nichols; the ordaining prayer by Mr. Lancaster 
of Scarborough, the charge by Dr. Deane, the right hand of fellowship by Rlr 
Buckminster o.*" Boston, and the concluding prayer by Mr. Abbott of Beverly. The 
services were of a high order, as may readily be imagined, from the character of 
the distinguislied xren who performed them, and deeply interestmg to the people. 

It was desired generally in both parishes that Mr. Payson, who had been 
recently settled w the only ether Congregational Society in town, would extend the 
hand of fellowship on the occasion to the new pastor. lie was applied to by Dea. 
Freeman for that purpose, and Mr. Nichols, in a letter on the subject, said it would 
be perfectly agreeable to him. But Mr. Paycon held himself in reserve, replying 
to the application of Mr. Freeman that it would depend upon the council, and that 
liis course could be better determined after the candidate had come before the 
council, hoping that he should fmd no difficulty from his conduct or belief. He had 
formed his opinion that if the examination should not be satisfactory to him, he 
would in no manner concui- in his ordination. It, was not satisfactory, and with the 
difterent views of the parties on the controverted points of theology, which were 
then deemed so vital by Mr. Payson, it could not be satisfactory to him. lie 
therefore, alone, of all the members present, refused his approbation to the candidate. 
and declined taking any part in the ordination. We believe he acted conscientiously, 
whatever mav be thought of the wisdom or the charity of the conclusion . That he had 



deane's diaky. 397 

«' Take heed how ye hear." 18. Mr. Nichols, P. M.— " He that 
desireth the office of a Bishop," &c. 25. Mr. Nichols, on Unity, 

seriously reflected on the subject, and had firmly taken his stand, prior to the 
meeting, his correspondence shows; it thus speaks, " The ordination is just at hand, 
and engrosses universal attention in town. The candidate is a fine scholar, has an 
amiable disposition * * * * and has treated me in that frank, open, friendly 
manner, which is just calculated to win me over to his side. Add to this, that both 
his society and mine are anxious tluit the old enmity between the two parishes 
may now be done away, since two young men are placed over them. But I hope 
I shall be able to act as duty requires." 

The course taken by Mr. Payson was an independent one, and required great 
firmness of mind to resist the pressure for conciliation which generally prevailed, 
and to encounter the obloquy which his solitary opposition would necessarily bring 
upon him, in a case so clearly unexceptionable in every other point, except dogmatic 
theology. But that was a time when a sharp and severe controversy was com- 
mencing, and the passions of those entering into the contest were highly excited. 
We trust that the spirit of the great Teacher and Master is gaining the ascen- 
dancy. 

The breach between the first and second Parishes was made impassable in 1811, 
by the refusal of the pastors of the second Parish to permit Mr. Nichols to preach 
in their pulpit in his turn, by appointment of the association of ministers, to which 
they all belonged. Mr. Nichols was afterwards excluded from the association, 
solely on doctrinal objections. 

Mr. Nichols is the son of Capt. Ichabod Nichols, and was born in Salem, Mass., 
in May, 1784. He graduated at H. C. in 1802, in a class distinguished for fine 
scholars and able men; the contest for the first prize of scholarship was balanced 
between himself and Andrew Ritchie; it was bestowed upon the latter, not with- 
out the protest of his classmates, although '}<lr. Nichols was then but in his 19th 
year. He commenced the study of his profession with the Rev. Dr. Barnard, of 
Salem, and in 1805 was appointed tutor in Mathematics at Cambridge, which 
place he held until he accepted the invitation to settle in Portland. He has since 
received a doctorate in divinity from Harvard and Bowdoin, and been elected a 
member of the American Academy. He has been twice married; his first wife 
was a daughter of the late Gov. Gilman, of New Hampshire, to whom he was 
married May 15, 1810, who died in 1831, aged 46, leaving two children — Henry, 
a physician in Standish, and John Taylor Gilman, pastor of the 2d Church in 
Saco. His present wife is the daughter of the late Stephen Higginson, long a 
distinguished merchant and philanthropist in Boston. It is pleasing to add that 
all the clouds which lowered over the Parish when Dr. Nichols was settled, have 
since disappeared, and the controversies which cast their deep shadows upon the 
horison of that day, have faded and melted into a clear and serene sky of religious 
peace, advancement and prosperity. In 1825 the new stone meeting-house w.ns 
erected, the largest in the city, which was dedicated in February, 1826. And 



398 deane's diary. 

27. Received of Mr. Stephen Longfellow $41, being the product of a 
benefit oration, by Mr. Ogilvie, for the Benevolent Society. ' 

July 4. Mr. Emery, Orator; (Nicholas, federal.) 

September 22. Committee about the address. (Before the 
Benevolent Society.) 

October 18. Benevolent lecture, Payson. (Rev. Mr. Payson 
delivered the address this year.) 29. Sabbath. Mr. Parker, A. M. 
and P. M., (of Portsmouth.) Mr. N. preached for Mr. Parker last 
and this Sabbath. 

November 22. Ordination, Cape Elizabeth. ^ 

December 3. Mr. N. on Psalmody. 17. I staid at home ; Mr. N. 
on the Immortality of the Soul, and on the Deceitfulness of the 
Heart. 

Dwelling houses erected this year — Capt. Crabtree's, S. Jones', 
Capt. Pritchard's, Major Day's. '^ 

in 1835 a new society was formed from it, constituting the 2d Unitarian Society in 
Portland, over which the Rev. R. P. Cutler is settled. 

Most of the excited actors in those scenes have gone where doubt is resolved 
into perfect light, and the petty controversies, speculative theories, and metaphysi- 
cal quibbles, which appear so momentous to the Church militant, shrink into their 
merited insignificance. 

Dr. Nichols is the only one of the council now in the ministry, and the only one 
living except IMr. Tilton, of Scarboro', and is the oldest settled minister in the 
State, with the exception of Rev. David Thurston, of Winthrop, who was 
ordained in 1807. 

The accompanying portrait of Dr. Nichols, taken in 1848, is commended by its 
truth and fidelity. 

1. Mr. Ogilvie was a Scotch gentleman, who delivered lectures through the 
country on Elocution and against Duelling — and was a teacher of Eloquence. 

2. Benjamin Sawyer, of Boothbay : he graduated at Dartmouth College, 1808, 
and was ordained in the room of Rev. Mr. Gregg, who took a dismission in 1806 : 
Mr. Sawyer continued only until September, 1813. The 1st Church was invited, 
and voted to assist, and on the 24th of December, they were invited to assist at 
the ordination of Rev. Francis Brown, at North Yarmouth, and were represented. 
Mr. Brown was a native of Chester, N. H., graduated at Dart. Col. in 1805, and 
was ordained Jan. 11,1810: he was a fine scholar and an excellent man. In 
1815, he was appointed President of Dartmouth College, which station he filled but 
five years, when he was cut off in 1820, in the midst of his usefulness and fame. 

3. The severe blow to the growth of the town by the prostration of business, is 
clearly shown by the greatly diminished number of buildings erected. 




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deane's diary. 399 

1810. 

January 28, President Appleton preached — *' Are not my ways 
equal ] " " The path of the just is as," &c. / 

May 15. Mr. N. married. (Mr. Nichols to Dorothy Gilman, of 
Exeter, daughter of Gov. G.) 

1811. 

March 27, Dr. Dupee's funeral. ' 
May 2. Bible Society meeting, ^ 
July 10, Association meeting, 

September. An apple raised in Elijah Deane's orchard weighed 
twenty-five and a half ounces, avoirdupois. 

November 5, P, Thomas' funeral. 12. Mr. Enoch Ilsley's funeral. ^ 

1. Dr. Henry Dupee was a Physician and an Apothecary, and had lived here a 
few years. He left one son, John, and two daughters, one of whom married Mr, 
White, an Apothecary in Boston, and they both moved there, where they died. He 
was 49 years old ; his widow died in 1813, aged 45. 

2. The Maine Bible Society was incorporated in March, 1810, and Dr. Deane 
was chosen the first President : it was the fourth Society of the kind established in 
the United States. The first was at Philadelphia, the second at Hartford, Conn., 
the third in Boston. It still continues its operations ; but the interest in its labors is 
much diminished by the establishment of numerous Societies in various parts of the 
State, with a similar object. 

3. Enoch IlsJcy was the second son of Isaac Ilsley, the first of the name who 
came to this town, and was born in Newbury, where his father then lived, in 1730. 
He was a joiner by trade, and while he was employed in his business at Andover, 
Mass., he became acquainted with Mary Parker, of that place, whom he afterwards 
married, and by whom he had all his children, as follows, viz : Elizabeth, 
commonly called Betty, married, first, Pearson Jones, second, Samuel Freeman ; 
Dorcas, married Eben'r Preble ; Enoch, lost at sea; Ferdinand died young, of 
consumption; Charlotte, married Stephen McLellan ; Almira, married James 
Deering; Parker, Hannah, married Stephen McLellan, second wife ; Augusta, the 
youngest, married Isaac Ilsley ; all of whom are dead, and those with whom they 
intermarried, except Mrs. Deering and Mrs. Ilsley, with their husbands. A family 
is rarely found where all the daughters form so respectable matrimonial connections. 
His second wife was Elizabeth Harper, to whom he was married m 1783; his third, 
Abigail Barstow, who survived him. 

Before the revolution, his commercial business was larger than that of any other 
person in town, and he was largely concerned in the purchase of real estate. In 
1772, his estate was valued higher than any other resident upon the Neck, except 
Brig. Preble. He lived near Clay Cove, where he owned a large real estate, and 
carried on his business. In 1774, he owned more tonnage than any other person iii 



'100 deane's diary, 

Uecemher 4. Ecclesiastical Council sat. ' 

1812. 

January 5. Sabbath. Mr. N. on Peace. 12. Mr. N. on the 
dreadful scene at Richmond, Va. (Burning of the theatre and loss of 
life.) 28. Major Waite's funeral. (Benjamin, son of John ; he lived 
in Falmouth.) 

March 18. Council and instalment. ^ 



town, principally employed in the West India trade. He was Selectman of the 
town, and Town Treasurer, 15 years. In the destruction of the town by the British, 
in 1775, his losses were estimated at .€2107. 

1. Called on the disagreement of the second Church in Portland. They recom- 
mended the dissolution of the pastoral relation of the senior minister, 3Ir. Kellogg, 
and unanimously recommended him to the churches. 

2. This Council, consisting of the Representatives of nine Churches, all in the 
neighboring towns, was called by a minority of the members of the 2nd Church in 
Portland, the friends of Mr. Kellogg, on the refusal of that Church to dismiss them 
to other Churches. Rev. Paul Coffin, of Buxton, was Moderator, and Rev. 
Nathan Tilton, of Scarboro', Scribe. The 2nd Church was notified by the 
Council of their meeting and the objects of it, and Mr. Payson and I\Ir. Southo-ate 
appeared before them, and after some explanations and communications, thirty-two 
members were dismissed from the 2nd Church, with their consent, and embodied 
into a new Church, under the name of " The Chapel Congregational Church in 
Portland." The Council then proceeded to install the Rev. Elijah Kellogg as their 
pastor. The services were performed on the 18th of March, as follows : — 
Introductory prayer, by Rev. Mr. Bradley, of Stroudwater; Sermon, by Rev. Mr. 
Miltimore, of Falmouth ; Ordaining prayer, by Rev. Mr. Coffin ; Charge, by Rev. 
Mr. Lancaster ; Fellowship of the Churches, by Rev. Mr. Marrett, of Standish ; 
Concluding pniyor, by Rev. Mr. Tilton. 

Mr. Miltimore, exceedingly plain in his addresses on all occasions, was particu- 
larly so on this, and not a little quaint. He closes his sermon, first with an address 
to the pastor, and then to the people, " Give me leave, reverend Sir, to address 
your church and people." To the pastor he says, " Reverend Sir — Of late, you 
have experienced a painful interruption in your labors. A few months ago, you, 
with a fellow-laborer, were at the head of yon numerous Church and assembly^ 
There was nothing then foreseen to interrupt your harmony, or becloud your 
prospects. But on a sudden, a series of troubles arose, and you were removed uito 
a corner ! " Again : " O, brother, let me beseech of you to be tender of him 
who occupies your former stand. Consider his youth. Paul and Barnabas were 
both good men; notwithstanding their contentions, they doubtless often prayed for 
one another; and wished each other success m winning souls to Christ. Being 
situated, dear Sir, in a near neighborhood with him, once your colleague, pray for 
the continuance of his success and usefulness. It is but a little time, brother, that 



deane's diary. 401 

May 14. I went to mill. (79 years old.) 28. Church meeting. ' 
Ju7ie 30. John Butler dined here, and was tolerably sober and 
conversable. " 

Jidy 7. Dined at R. Boyd's. ^ 

the best minister of the gospel can retain the affections of his people. Therefore, 
though your successor must increase, and you decrease, yet do not envy him. He 
is subject to the same painful vicissitude." 

1. The Church voted to request the Pastor to administer the Sacrament monthly, 
viz., on the third Sabbath in each year, except January and February : that there 
be a meetmg of the male members after each Sacramental lecture : that the male 
and female members meet also monthly at the meeting-house on those days which 
shall be equally distant from the two monthly Sacraments. 

2. John Butler; came here a jeweller in 1761. Joseph H. Ingraham worked 
with him as an apprentice before the war. He afterwards engaged in trade, and 
accumulated a handsome property. He built one of the best houses in town, on 
the westerly side of King street, which was destroyed, with other property belonging 
to him, in the conflagration of 1775; there was but one other house on the neck at 
that time which had brick ends — that was Greenwood's, now the Jewett house, on 
Middle street. He married Ann, daughter of Capt. John Codman, of Charlestown, 
and sister of deacon Richard Codman, of this town. He was a man of easy 
manners, good personal appearance, and of gay and cheerful disposition; but his 
misfortunes, loss of property and children, unseated his reason, and left him a 
melancholy wreck. He wandered many years about our streets, generally harm- 
less, and sometimes the sport of the boys. He died in Westbrook, m December, 
1827, aged 95 ; having been supported several years by that town. 

3. There are frequent entries of his enjoying the hospitalities of this worthy 
man. Robert Boyd was the son of James Boyd, of Boston, and came here in 
1784; his brother, Joseph Coffin Boyd, came soon after. They, with their brother 
John, were brought up to mercantile life in Boston, but all of them left their 
paternal home early in life to seek their fortunes abroad. John went to India, 

^where he entered the Company's service, and rose to the command of a batallioa 
or regiment in the British army. He returned to this country prior to the war of 
1812, and did good service as commander of a regiment in that war, and was in 
the battle of Tippecanoe. He never was married. 

Robert and Joseph both engaged in trade here; they kept on the corner of Middle 
and Exchange sts. , which was then thought to be too far up for business. Joseph went 
to France in 1800, and was absent eighteen months; on his return, he left commer- 
cial pursuits and engaged in other occupations; was an acting magistrate, and for a 
short time Clerk of the County. Robert was successful in trade; he purchased 
a valuable parcel of real estate on the corner of Exchange street, and erected the 
large block of stores extending from the Canal Bank on Middle street, round into 
Exchange street, in the corner one of which he continued his business until his 
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402 deane's diary, 

August 12. Mrs. Ilsley buried. ' 

October 14. Mrs. D. departed half past 4, P. M.' 16. Funeral 
of Mrs. D. ; full house. 

November 30. Dined at Mr. Kellogg's. 

December 18. Lecture. Mr. Kellogg preached. 2G. Major Lancas- 
ter's funeral. (Sewall, son of Rev. Mr. L., of Scarborough, aged 33.) 

1813. 

January 5. Visited Mrs. Widgery. ° 

death, in 1827, at the age of 68. In 1,805 he built the large house on the corner of 
High and Pleasant streets, now occupied by part of his family. lie had purchased 
a large lot on Munjoy's hill, and was for some time undecided at which end of the 
town to fix his residence. At the close of the last century, the impression was 
favorable to erecting the large and fashionable buildings on Munjoy's hill, or at the 
lower end of the town; but Mr. Ingraham, the McLellans, Mr. Cobb and others, 
having purchased and built at the west end, the current set that way ; it is now 
flowing both ways. 

In 1701 he married Ruth, a daughter of Capt. David Smith, by whom he had 
the following children, who are still living, born 1792 to 1805, viz : John Parker, 
Susan Coffin, William, Robert and Lendal G. S. Mrs. Boyd died August 10, 
1805, of consumption, aged 36. He married, for his second wife. Miss Hannah 
Greenleaf, of Nevvburyport, who survived him twenty years. 

In 1796, Joseph married Isabella, a daughter of Dr. Robert Southgate, of 
Scarborough, by whom he had a large family of children; seven of whom are still 
living, viz : Mary, married to Dr. John Merrill, of Portland, Robert S., Samuel 
Stillman, a lawyer and Judge in Mississippi, Frederick, Walter, Augusta, married 
to Mr. Tilghman, of Baltimore, and Edward. He died in 1823, aged 63, his wife 
having preceded him several years. His son James died in 1829, aged 31, and 
several other of his children died before reaching maturity. 

1. Mary, wife of Rlajor Daniel Ilsley, and daughter of Ephraim Jones, aged 
73; she died August 10. 

2. Mrs. Deane, the Doctor's wife ; her name was Eunice, the daughter of 
Moses Pearson, born January 25, 1727, and consequently in her 86th year — six 
years older than her husband. She never had any children. 

3. Wife of William Widgery. Mr. Widgery, by energy and perseverance, rose 
from the humblest circumstances in life to a high degree of prosperity and property. 
Before the revolutionary war, he settled in New Gloucester, very poor; in the 
course of the war, he engaged in the privateer service, and became Lt. of a priva- 
teer commanded by Capt. Nathl. Thompson. When peace took place he com- 
menced the practice of law in New Gloucester, in spite of the law and bar rules, 
and succeeded in having a term of the Common Pleas held at that place. He waa 
a member of the Convention of Massachusetts which adopted the constitution of 



lkane's diary. 403 

February 23. Gov. Gilman here. ' 

March 21. Mrs. Freeman's funeral. ' 

September 6. I went to mill — Saccarappa. 8. Burrows (Wm.) 
and Blythe, (Sam'l) interred. ^ 

October 13. Benevolent Society, Ch. Davies. (Annual Address, 
by C. S. Davies, Esq.) 

the U. S.; represented the county in the Senate in 1794, and liis town in the 
House of Representatives several years, in all which capacities, he lost no oppor- 
tunity to make a speech. He opposed the Federal constitution throughout. Having 
moved to Portland near the close of the last century for a wider sphere, he engaged 
in commerce, from which he was taken in 1813 and placed upon the bench of the 
Common Pleas, with Judges Green and Dana, and continued there nine years, 
until the court was abolished in 1821. He closed his eventful career in 1822, at 
the age of 70, as he is put down, but it is probable he was older, leaving a hand- 
some estate. Nobody appeared to know where he originated, or what was his 
age; and none of his name remain here; the only one of the name that we know, 
IS his grandson, John, now residing in Arkansas. His first wife was Miss Randall, 
of Lewiston, or that neighborhood, by whom he had all his children; his second, the 
widow Daftbrne, of Boston, who at the time of her marraige with Mr. Widgery had 
one daughter, Eliza ; she married Nathan Kinsman, Esq., a lawyer in this town, 
Sept. 26, 1802. His own daughter Elizabeth, married Elias Thomas, on the same 
day, and is now, with her husband, living here, the excellent mother of a large 
family. The second Mrs. Widgery was a woman of a great deal of wit and char- 
acter; she died in March, 1834, aged 85. Mr. Widgery was a man of great energy 
and of infinite humor, and the success which attended all his plans, is sufficiently 
indicative of his tact or force of character. 

1. Gov. John T. Gilman of N. H., father of Mrs. Nicholas Emery, Mrs. Dr. 
Nichols, and Mrs. C. S. Davies; he was 14 years Gov. of N. H., and died Aug. 31, 
1828, aged 75. 

2. Mrs. Lois Freeman, widow of Joshua Freeman, and daughter of Moses 
Pearson, born Aug. 11, 1733. Her husband died Nov. 11, 1796, in his 66th year; 
see further notice iu note to Mr. Smith's journal, 1749, page 135. 

3. Captains of the brigs-of-war Enterprise and Boxer, who were killed in an 
engagement on this coast, Sept. 5, 1813, in which the British brig Boxer, after a 
severe and bloody battle of 45 minutes, was captured and brought into this port. 
They were buried with military honors, in the eastern cemetery, to wliich their 
remains were accompanied by a long and mournful procession, with fine trains of 
solemn music. They lie side by side, and near their remains monuments have 
been erected, bearing suitable and honorable inscriptions to their memory. Blythe 
was 29 years old, and Burrows 28. By their side lies the body of Lieut. Kervia 
Waters, of Georgetown, D. C, aged 18, who was wounded in the engagement^ 
aad lingered until September 25, 1815. 



404 deane's diary. 

November 25. Thanksgiving — I preached. (Now past 80 years old.) 

December 22. Fire in Portsmouth. 

In the leaves between August and September, is the following entry : 
"Deposited with M. Quimby, Esq., $400. Patrick, Lowth and 
Whitby, 6 vols, folio, at Thomas Freeman's, with silk clothes, in 
a black trunk. Life of Washington, 5 vols., and maps, at Esq. 
Deane's, with Election sermons and two State papers. Tankard, two 
cans, porringer in stockings, seal skin trunk, bank papers, deeds, 
receipts, Church letters, &c., at J. D., Esqr's. 

In 1814, other articles were carried out, among which was $1060, 
books, furniture, &c. ' 

1814. 

January! 2. I preached all. 10. News of the Bramble. ^ 30. Mr. 
Codman preached A. M. on " Search the Scriptures ;" Mr. Hum- 
phries, P. M., on Repentance. 

March 18. Lecture — I preached. 

May 8. Sabbath. I home, laboring with a gouty hand. 

Jzcne 5. Sabbath. Rain A. M., fair P. M. Mr. Humphries 
preached A. M. ; Mr. Potter, P. M., (father of Judge Barrett Potter.) 
I at meeting P. M. ; full house. 11. Visited Dr. Coffin. ^ 

1. This was probably done as matter of precaution, in apprehension of an 
attack upon the town by a British fleet then hovering upon our coast, and which 
kept up a continual alarm during this and the next year. IMauy persons moved 
their families and their valuable effects into tlie country, and the whole population 
capable of bearing arms was held in requisition to resist an invasion. A large 
force was also collected here from the country, in 1814, for the same purpose. 
Portland then appeared like a camp; breast works were thrown up at the diflerent 
avenues into town, on which heavy guns were mounted. The old men formed a 
company of minute men under the command of the veteran Gen. John K. Smith, who 
served in the army of the revolution, and who died in 1842 aged, 88. Other exempts 
from ordinary military duty also formed companies and held themselves ready 
for service. Fortunately the enemy did nothing more than collect provisions from 
the neighboring islands and coast, and left the city, then in great agitation, unharmed. 

2. The British schooner Bramble, bearing a flag of truce, arrived at Annapolis, 
December 30, with despatches to the government, giving encouragement that 
propositions for peace would be met in a pacific spirit. 

3. Dr. Nathaniel Coftin, jr., son of Dr. Nathaniel Cofiin and Patience Hale, 
was born in 1742. His father graduated at H. C. ; the son did not receive a 
collegiate education, but completed the study of his profession in London, where hp 
had the privilege of attending at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, and had the 



beane's diary. 405 

June 18. Esq. Martin's funeral. ' 

Juhj 17. Sabbath. Sacrament, 85. I one. (85 communicants ; 
he made one prayer.) 

August 24. Capitol taken. (Washington city captured by the 
British.) 

September 7. Rode to Standish. 

September 20. Day of prayer and fast. 

October 18. Tuesday. N. W. (This is the last entry in his 
diary ; the other entries for this month are principally notices of the 
weather; such as " Saturday 1. S. S. W., S., fair." The exceptions 



advantage of seeing and assisting in extensive operations there. On his return, in 
1764, he entered on a full and lucrative practice, virhich was increased by his 
ftither's death two years after, and which he continued with assiduity and success, 
until within a short time of his death, October 21, 1826, at the advanced age of 84. 
He was a man of easy manners, very agreeable address, and cheerful temper, and 
for many years he stood at the head of his profession in this section of the country. 
October 3, 1768, he married Eleanor Foster, of Charlestown, Mass., and had by 
her the following children, viz: Mary, born about 1772, married Ebenezer Mayo, 
1792, and died the next year; Susannah, married Wni. Codinan, of Boston, Oct. 
27, 1791, by whom she had several children; he died in 1816, and his widow, with 
her daughter Susan, married to Benjamin Welles, of Boston, and her son John, a 
lawyer, now reside m that city; Harriet, born May 14, 1775, married Jesse 
Sumner, of Boston, November 23, 1799, who died in 1847; she, with her daughter 
Harriet, married to Nathan Appleton, are now living in Boston; Eleanor, born July 
22, 1779, married John Derby, of Salem, by whom she had several children; he 
died about 1832, and she is now living in Boston; Tliomas and Francis, twins, 
born November 16, 1780; Thomas went to Russia in early life, married and died 
there; Francis died unmarried in 1842; Martha, born April 11, 1783, married 
Richard C. Derby, of Boston, September 27, 1800, and died without issue in 1832; 
Isaac Foster, born March 27, 1787, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1806, 
practised law for a while, and then went to South America, where he spent several 
years; on his return he married Ann Prince, of Roxbury, and is now living at that 
place. Mrs. Coffin died in 1832. She was a lady of the old school, and her 
amiable temper and graceful and dignified manners inspired universal respect and 
regard. They were both handsome m their persons, and transmitted the envious 
gift to their children, as well as their courtesy and grace. There seem to have 
been a sort of charm during the last quarter of the last century among the residents 
on King street, and the fame for beauty and gracefulness of the members of the 
Coffin, the Tucker, and Weeks families, was not confined to the town or even the 
State; and the daughters were eagerly sought in marriage before they came to their 
full maturity. 

1. Wm. IMartin : he came from England in 1783, and settled in North 



406 deane's diary. 

are " Thursday 6. S, E., N. W., Rainy, fair, began to buy milk. 
Sabbath 9. W., S., fair, pleasant and at home." 

The Journal of his own life was closed on the 12th of November, 
at the age of 81.) 

Yarmouth, in trade. He was naturalized in 1787, and in 1790 was a candidate for 
Congress, in opposition to George Thacher, and several others. He moved to 
Portland in 1804. His daughters had an accomplished education, particularly 
Penelope, who remained in England until 1790, to complete her education, and for 
many years kept a high school for young ladies, both here and at North Yarmouth, 
which attracted many from abroad, and where a thorough education was imparted. 
Two of the children, Catherine and Penelope, are now living at an advanced age ; 
Samuel died in 1848; Eliza, some years ago; and William, Feb. 14, 1849, at the 
age of 86. Their mother, a superior woman, died in 1828, at the age of 90. 



Note. The diaries of the first two venerable pastors of the first Parish, running 
through a period of more than ninety years, are now closed. They exhibit the history 
of the town under its various aspects of prosperity and desolation; probably no town 
■in the country has had a greater share of vicissitude ; distressing sutfering has 
deeply marked her career, as well as signal periods of advancement. To say 
nothing of the utter subversion of the village by the Indians twice, before the 
period our Journals commence, viz: in 1676 and 1690; the destruction of the 
town in 1775, and the calamities attendant upon the commercial embarrassments 
and war from 1807 to 1815, present a case of suffering not often lo be found, at 
least in our peaceful republic. The time when the diary of Dr. Deane closes 
was the darkest day in the war with Great Britain. The enemy was hovering 
on the coast with a formidable fleet, which ever and anon looked into our harbor 
wall its blood shot eyes. The people had transported many of their valuable 
moveables into the country; the town was filled with soldiers; was partially for- 
tified, and the people were under constant apprehension of an attack, or a forced 
contribution. The elements of its prosperity, being entirely commercial, had been 
struck down and prostrated; the largest mercantile houses had failed; their vessels 
were decaying in the docks; the grass was growing upon the wharves, and univer- 
sal bankruptcy seemed the doom of the place. 

The tonnage, which in 1807 had risen to 39,000, fell off in two years 9000 tons, 
aud the amount of duties in the same period from !ii;342,909, went down to 
$41,369. We cannot give a better description of the sad depression which hung 
over the affairs of the town than is vividly portrayed by the Rev. Dr. Payson, in a 
letter to his father, dated Dec. 2S, 1807. There had been in the intervening time 
no relief, aud the terrors of war and invasion were added to those of poverty. He 
says: 



deane's diary, 407 

" The prospect of war has produced here such a scene of wretchedness as I 
never before witnessed. A large number of the most weahhy merchants \iave 
already failed, and numbers more are daily following, so that we are threatened ^with 
universal bankruptcy. Two failures alone have thrown at least three hundred 
persons, besides sailors, out of employ; and you may hence conceive, in some 
measure, the distress which the whole number must occasion. The poor house is 
already full, and hundreds yet to be provided for, who have depended on their own 
labor for their daily bread, and who have neither the means of supporting them- 
selves here, nor of removing into the country. Many who have been brought up 
in affluence, are now depending on the cold courtesy of creditors for a protection 
from the inclemency of the season. * * If these times continue, nine tenths of 
the people here will be scattered to the four winds." — Memoirs 1, 142. 

In 1814 there were but seven religious societies in town, viz : the First and 
Second Parishes, the Episcopal, the Quaker, the Chapel Congregation, the Meth- 
odist, established in 1795, and which in 1804 numbered but eleven members, now 
one of the largest in town, with a branch, and the Federal street Baptist, which com- 
menced in 1796, and was organized in 1801. The population at that time did not 
exceed 7,000, the number of houses was about 660, many of which were unoccu- 
pied, as well as numerous stores, which had previously been the busy scenes of 
trade. 

The next year, peace having taken place, the people began to recover from their 
prostrate condition, and slowly advance to a brighter day. Of this progress, and 
the present state of the town, we shall add some particulars in an appendix. 



BUILDINGS ERECTED 



FROM 



1784 TO 1809. 



Dr. Deane kept, on blank leaves of his almanacs, a memorandum of buildings 
erected in Portland, for several years, beginning with 1784, the year in which the 
people began in earnest to rebuild their waste places. Many of the buildings 
contained in the following table are still standing, although most of them have 
passed from the hands and the names of then- original proprietors. 

I have brought them together under the years in which they were erected, for 
more convenient reference, and have put down their location where I could ascer- 
tain it. 

1784. 

Dwelling Houses. Col. Pike's, India street ; Mr. Plumer's, Fore ; G. War- 
ren's, Clay Cove ; Capt. Thurlo's, Fore, below India ; Capt. Stephenson's, Fore, 
below India; Sandford's, corner of Congress and India; Weeks', India; Robison's, 
foot of Park; Mr. Jer. Berry's, Federal; Eliphalet Morse's, Essex; Samuel Good- 
ing's, Essex; Capt. Stone's, corner of ftliddle and Pearl, (ftlr. Newhall's) ; Capt. 
Smith's, corner of Union and Fore; Hugh Marwick's, Spring; Wm. Jenks', Willow; 
Richard Gooding's, Middle; Nath'l Jordan's, Fore, below In3ia; James Jordan's, 
Jordan's Point ; Moses Lunt's, India; John Archer's, Fore, burnt 1826 ; Nath'l 
Springat's ; Capt. Robison's, corner of Park and Congress ; Moses Noyes', 
Congress, opposite Morton's block; Sherman's, Spring; Col. Pike's, India; Paul 
Little's, India; Enoch Ilsley's, corner of India and Fore; Mr. Huston's, India, next 
to Dr. Coffin's; James Flood's, Essex, moved to Federal; Jacob Bradbury's, lane 
from Fore to Thames; Thomas Bradbury's, lane from Fore to Thames ; John 
Dole's, India; Joshua Roger's, Fore, corner of Chatham; Ammi Wise's, Middle, 
opposite U. S. Hotel, moved to Federal ; Thomas Hopkin's, Middle, burnt; 
Abijah Poole's, corner of Hampshire and Sumner ; Capt. Baker's, Clay Cove; 
Capt. Thurlo's ; Wm. Farrmgton's, Willow ; Moses Brazier's ; Tho's Berry's, 
Federal, east of Essex. 41. 

Bariis. Gen. Wadsworth's, Congress street ; Mr. Deane's, Samuel Gookins, 
Mr. Faben's. 

Shops. Mr. Goodwin's, Mr. Bang's, Mr. Webster's, Mr. I. Noyes' Barber's 
shop; Mrs. Farrey's, Stephen Waite's. 

Stores. Gen. Wadsworth's, Congress, next to his house ; Thomas Watt's, 



deane's diary. 409 

MiJdie, next to his father's house ; Capt. Robison's ; Col. VVaite's, near Central 
wharf ; Jonas Clark's, Exchange; Joseph Noyes', corner of Essex and Middle, near 
where S. Waite's house is ; Stephen Codman's, corner of India and Fore ; Mr. 
Jona. Bryant's, nest below flen. Wadsworth's, Congress ; Sam'l Bryant's, next to 
Jonathan's, 

1785. 

Dwelling Houses. Samuel Bryant's; Mr. Gould's, Sprmg street, one story; 
Thomas Beck's, Fore street; John Thrasher's, India street; Caleb Graffam's; Capt. 
James Jewett's, corner of Middle and Silver streets; Capt. Thomas Robison's, 
near Robison's wharf; Gen. Peleg Wadsworth's, Congress, now occupied by Mr. 
Longfellow, who married his daughter — first brick building in town — two summers 
in building — John Nichols, mason; Deacon Benjamin Titcomb's, Fore, on the Pear- 
son lot, opposite Custom house, two stories; Elijah Littlefield, shoemaker, Congress 
street; Mr. Fernald's, Anthony, Moose alley, now Chatham street; John Knight 
Jr's. Moose alley; Daniel Cobb's, Congress; EbenStarbird's^Deer; Nathl. Gordon's, 
Smith street; Peter Merrill's; Thomas Hopkins, Middle, addition; Ephraun Jones; 
Jonathan Morse's, India; the Shoe maker's, by the gallows, near mile post; 
James Fosdick's, Fore, next to Mrs. Oxnard's; Matthew Pennell's, Essex, next to 
Mrs. Tukey's; William Wiswell, Fore ; Samuel Moimtfort's, Fore ; Thomas 
Hopkins, Middle; James Lunt's, corner of Congress and Franklin ; Samuel Web- 
ber's ; Joseph Weeks', India; Joseph Sweetsir's Congress; Murch's; Noah 
Cole's; Thomas Child's, Middle, below the Freeman house, now standing in Har- 
rison Court; Mr. Ingraham's, Fore, fronting Long wharf, moved away; — 33. 

1786. 

Mr. Kent's, John, Middle, just below the Exchange, recently occupied and owned 
by the late George Turner ; Nathaniel Shaw's, Brown street, burnt in 1842 ; 
John Nichols', Fore, head of Long Wharf, removed; Capt, John Jones's, Essex, 
near cornerof Newbury, still there; Peter Faber's; John Jones's; Stephen Tukey's, 
corner of Federal and Essex; Thomas Newman's, Federal, east of Essex; John 
Fox's, Fore, between Exchange and Plumb, still standing in rear of stores; Eliphalet 
Deane's, Union, burnt 1826; Wm. Tobey's; Woodman Clement's, Cross street; 
Mrs. Preble's, Thames, now standmg, third story added; Mrs. Preble's, small one; 
Elizabeth Brown's; Mr. Barbour's, Middle ; — 16. 

I find no entry of buildings erected from 1786 to 1791; in the latter year is the 
following entry : 

1791. 

Dwelling Houses.— Mr. Beck's; Eliphalet Morse's; Josiah Cox's, corner of 

School and Middle; Eben. Storer's, corner of Temple and Federal— now part of 

the Elm House; Capt. Benj. Stone's, cornerof Brown and Congress, burnt in 1842, 

tavern house; Daniel Cobb's, Congress, now Tolman's, near Casco street; Messrs. 

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410 dkane's diary. 

Douglass's; Capt, Robinson's; Bart. Jordan's; Francis Cliase's; Widow Morse's; 
Moses Hall's; Capt. John Stickney's, Centre. 

Other buildings converted into dwelling houses : — ^The Work house, Joseph 
Haskell's, A.sa Plumraer's, Silver street; Webster's. 

Stores. Josiah Cox's, Fore, near head of Connnercial wharf; Josiah Tucker's; 
Messrs. Douglass's; Stephen Codinan's, India; Nicholas Blaisdell, Middle, where 
Evans', and Durgin & Co.'s stores are; Samuel Bryant's; Daniel Tucker's. 

Barns. Josiah Cox's, Eben Storer's, R. Cross's, (Ralph, Free street.) 

1792. 

Dwelling Houses. Capt. Deering's ; Michael Lunt's ; Joshua Rogers'; Mr- 
Kellogg's, Free, burnt 1842 ; Woodman's, Fore ; Woodbury Storer's, Free, now 
Mrs. McCobb's, brick; Alexander Barr's, Fore, near Franklin; Widow Knight's; 
J.Jones's; Seymour's; S. Sliaw, (Samuel, Middle, just below Willow, gambrel 
loof, unaltered.) Ralph Cross', Free street, brick, Morton house; Capt. Warren's, 
Fore, near Lime. 

Barns. Mr. Kimball's, W. Storer's, Mr. Larrabee's, R. Cross', Mr. Jewett's, 
Mr. Harding's, J. Smith's. 

Stores. Stephen Deblois', Dr. Erving's, R. Gooding's, Capt. Tucker's, Joshua 
Rogers', S. Butts', Fore street, Isaac Ilsley"s,Mr. Bond's, Mr. Fox's, head of Long 
wharf. 

Shops. Josliua Berry's, Mr. Chase's, Joseph Bailey's, Mr. Kimball's, andthreo 
others. 

In 1792 there were but three brick buildings m town, viz : Gen. Wadsworth's 
house, now standing on Congress, just above Preble street, erected in 1783; Bcnj, 
Woodman's house and store on Fore street, between Lime and Silver, 1788; Eben 
Storer's, corner of Federal and Temple streets, now the Elm Tavern. Several 
others were commenced that year, viz : Peter Warren's, adjoining Woodman's^ 
Woodbury Storer's and Ralph Cross', in Free street; all now standing. 

. 1793. 

Dwelling Houses. John Hobart's, Fore; Webster's; John Leavitt's, Pleasant;. 
Wm. Vaughan's, Danforth; Col. Wm. Cobb's, Congress, now a part of the Ame- 
lican House ; Wm. Hans', Spring; Geo, Tukey's ; Z. Nowell's, Middle, next to 
Casco House; Mr. Waterhouse's; Mr. Kettle's; Bart, Jordan's; Robert Wright's; 
Samuel Robinson's; John Jones's; Zeph.. Rich's. 

Barns. Jno^ Larrabee's; Harry Green's; Nich. Blaisdcll's; Col. Cobb's; Mr, 
Hopkin's ; Mr. Douglass' ; IMr. Vaughan's ; Noyes's ; IMotley's stable ; Robert 
Boyd's. 

Stores. J. Ingraham's, Fore; Dr. Thomas'; Mr. Nichols'; Storer «& Boyd's; 
J. Ingraham's, 2d ; Great store ; Mr, Jewett's ; Capt. Paine's ; Boyd's wood- 
house. 

Shops. J. Bayley's, J. Quincy's, Dr. Thomas's, Deland's, J. Dole's, J. Riggs'^ 
Dsefing's, Douglas', Wheeler's. 



diuwe's wary. 411 

1794. 

Dwelling Houses. Jolm Kiinball's; Win, Barbour's, Congress; Jona. Deane's, 
Uuioir, Daniel Davis's, Esq., comer of Elm and Congress, now Clapp's, then two 
stories; Daniel Mussey's, corner of Brown and Congress, burnt 1842; Anthony 
Knight's, Deer St.; Daniel Green's, Green st.; Anthony Fernald's, Chatham st. ; 
Abigail Larrabee's; Thomas Haskell's; Wm. and Bernard Douglass's, Congress; 
Richard Gooding's; Joseph Bayley, jr.'s. 

Barns and Stables. Moses Lunt's; Mr. Moulton's; Jonathan Deane's; Elliot 
Deering's; Thomas Haskell's. 

Stores. On Fox's wharf; to the Battery; one on Union wharf; Mr. Gray's. 

Shops. Gunsmith's; Sheriff's; by Elisha Deering's; W. Storer's; R.Boyd's; 
Capt. Smith's; Gray's rope-walk — this extended frotn Congress to Gray street, and 
was removed some 20 years ago; Gray's shop. 

Additions to Buildings. E. Storer's wood-house; to Felts' house; to Charles 
llossack's house; leanto to_ Littlefield's. 

1795, 

Dwelling Houses. Eben. Cross'; Morton's; Noah Noyes'; Mr. Evan's; Wm. 
Barberry's; Homer's, Union; Bernard Douglass' ; Mark Walton's; Moody's; Abe! 
Baker's; Majury's. 

Barns. Bernard Douglass' ; Hugh McLellan's, Congress, corner of Brown st. , 
Jona. Deane's; Matthew Cobb's; Capt. Stone's; Mr. Morton's, 

Stores. Eben. Deering's; Eben. Storer's, corner of Middle and Union, wood, 
Capt. N. Deering's, brick, foot of Exchange; Nabby Barstow's, Fore, near India*, 
Air. Cobb's; Mr. Ingraham's; Mr. Fox's. 

Shops. Col. Cobb's ship-yard shop; Daniel Bradbury's; Samuel Motley's; 
Q,uaker meeting-house; Enoch Lowell's; one under the Bank. 

Additions. Mr. Chase's leanto; N. Fosdick's end, cornej- of School and Federal; 
Sally Cobham's shop; to Samuel Noyes's house; to Capt. Hobby's, Free; to Miss 
Cobham's shop; to Mr. Little's shop; to B. Knight's shop; to Colluis's shop; to 
Mrs. Hall's house; McLellan's wood-house; Anthony Fernald's; Moses Haskell's. 

1796. 

Dwelling Houses. Emmon's, Fore, near Union st. ; Tukey's; Capt. Greenleaf 's; 
Joseph Boyd's, Pleasant; Wm. Cobb's; Mr. Moulton's; Thomas Webster's, foot 
of Free, brick; Daniel Tucker's, India st., now Mr. Odell's; Mr. Neal's, Mr. Eben, 
Cross's; Ilannaford's; Daniels'; one near Cross' ; one near Daniels' ; Brewster's, 
Flint's, Pleasant st. 

Stores. Messrs. Douglass', Wm. Waite's, 3Ir. Behman's, Mr. Parker Ilsley's, 
Bagley's, on Long wharf. 

Stables and Barns. Alden's, Mr. Wesley's, Capt. Randall's; Motley's shed;: 
Jenks', Mr. Gray's; Mussey's ware-house; D. Davis', Stephen Tukey's, Lenmei 
Weeks's, Capt. Paine's. 

Shops. SfC Shaw'a shop: Utinicl Eppes' oflice, Exchange, 



412 deane's diaky. 

Additions. R. Gooding's leanto to house; Wm. Tukey's leanto to honse; 
add. to the pot house, to Deacon Thrasher's house, to Daniel Green's house, to 
Stone and Simonton's shop ; to Mr. Gray 's house ; second story on Leavitt's shop ; 
another story on Mr. Swan's house; to Capt. Alden's house. 

At the end of this year there were 393 dwelling houses in Portland, 

1797. 

Dwelling Houses. Anthony Fernald's, Skelton's, Mr. Widgery's, S. Quincy's, 
Mr. Rolfes', Spring street; Mr. Cammet's, Mr. Somerby's, Mr. Hale's, Congress; 
Mr. Leslies', Spring; Mr. Jerry Berry's, Capt. Thomas Waite's; School house - 
Widow , Benjamin Titcomb's, Wm. Barbour's, the Jail, Congress, Fow- 
ler's house, Jona. Swett's, Mr. Butler's. 

Barns and Stables. Samuel Motley's, Sherman's, Free; Collin's, Capt. Alex. 
Motley's, Hosea Ilsley's, High; Asa Plummer's, Silver; Mr. Cammet's, Joshua 
Robinson's, Rigger Chase's, Wm. Barbour's, Eben'r. Cross', Rolfe's, B. Leavitt's. 

Stores and Shops. One on Union Wharf, Mr. Phillip's, Shaw's hemp, Capt. 
S. Robinson's W. house, D. Tucker's chaise-house, lugersoll's, Mr. Fox's. 

Additions. To Mr. Lovis's house, leanto to James Owen's, leanto to Enoch 
Morse's, leanto to Register's office, D. Hunt's, another story to a house in Federal 
street. 

At the end of this year 412 dwelling houses in Portland. 

1798. 

Dwelling Houses. Mr. Delano's, Nathl. Moody's, Mr. Leavis's, Capt. Blake's, 
Gaoler's house. Congress; Capt. Sam'l. Colby's, Rogers and Hatch's, Willow ; 
George Vaughan's, near mile post, burnt; Newman Noyes's, one near Ebenezer 
Cross', Mr. Merrill's, Mr. Green's, Stephen Codman's near Mr. Hall's, Asa 
Shaw's, Pleasant; John Owen's, John Green's, John Goodwin's, Spring ; Mr. 
Emery's. 

Barns and Stables. Stephen McLellan's, Wm. Cobb's, Wm. Tukey's, at 
James Smith's, Capt. Sandford's, on Mr. Codman's lot, Mr. How's, Mr. Emery's. 

Stores. Dr. Shirley Erving's, Middle; Capt. Roland Jones', Ralph Cross's, and 
Storer's, Union Wharf; the Theatre, Mr. Leavis's, J. Ingraham's, Henry Tit- 
comb's, comer of Middle and Union, brick; Thomas Burnham's, on Wm. Cod- 
man's lot, brick, Middle, now Todd and others. 

Shops. Jesse Richard's, Prentiss's. 

Additions. To Motley's house, at Hobby's out house, to B. Knight's house; 
Sam'l. Smith's house, to Ralph Cross's store, to Mr. Butler's house, to Caleb Graf- 
fam's house. 

At the end of this year 431 dwelling houses in town. 

1799. 

Dwelling Houses. Anthony Fernald's, Wm. Vaughan's, corner of Bridge and 
Vaughan; Jervas Smith's; Officer's house at the fort, Munjoy's hill; Mr. Atkinson's, 



deane's diary. 413 

Waldron's, Varney's, Messrs. Merrill and Story's, Plnmer's, Minot's, Pleasant; 
Davis', Congress ; Ilsley's Negro house, Emor Daly's, Centre; Negro house, 
Enoch Ilsley's land, Mr. Burnham's, Daniel How's, brick, Danforth; Hosea Ilsleys 
High; E. Lowell's, Sam'l Hussey's, brick, corner of School and Congress; Joseph 
Boyd's, James McDonald's, Davis' two Negro houses, North end, J. Goodwin's, 
ill Spring; Mrs. , next Mr. How's, near Mr. Webster's. — 28=431 — total 459. 

Stores, S^c. Owen's bark house, Fore; James Deering's, Exchange; Hudson's, 
Thomas Beck's, against Mr. Hall's, John Mussey's, beginning of Mussey's row, 
Erving's inspection house, Green's house, near fort, Mr. Richardson's, Fore; Ste- 
phen McLellan's, James Deering's, wooden, on Long wharf, on Richardson's 
wharf, Mrs. Fox's. 

Shops. Francis' Bake house. Union; at Gray's rope walk; Smith's shop, Mr, 
Varney's, Mr. RolPs, Dr. Coffin's, by Benj. Poland's, Matty Emmons', B. Douglass' 
W. honse, School house, Spring street, Soap factory. 

Barns. Mr. Graffam's, Hussey's, Deering's, Dow's, Chase's, near James 
Smith's, Betty Barstow's, Isaac Parker's, Free, burnt in 1842, behind H. Tit- 
comb's, Porter Lummus', Frye Poor's, Greely Hannaford's, Thos. Berry's, Daniel 
How's. 

Additions. Leanto to house, do. to D. Green's, do. B. Poland's house, second 
story to Somerby's, J. Jewett's w. house, leanto to Rolfe's, leanto to Asa Shaw's, 
porch to Tukey's, story to Mr. Ilsley's store, to Mr. Barr's house, (corner of 
Franklin and Fore), to Cory's Soap house, to Rogers and Hatch's, Mr. Chase's 
house, porch to Rigger Chase's, to J. Deane's house. 

1800. 

Dwelling Houses. Nath'l Gordon's, John McKenney's, Joshua Fernald's; 
Thomas Delano's, corner of High and Pleasant; Wm. Cobb's ; Parker Ilsley's, 
Fore, burnt 1828; Cory's, head of India, now Capt. Osgood's ; * Smith Cobb's; 
'Mr. Hatch's, Major Douglass', Enoch Cobb's; Elihu Deering's, corner of High and 
Pleasant, late Arthur McLellan's, now Win. Moulton's;* Jauies Hood's, Stephen 
McLellan's, High, brick, now B. Willis' ; * Wm. Vaughan's ; Capt. Delano's, 
Danforth ; Mr. Cammell's, Free, now Judge Potter's ; Kent and Wheeler's, 
Eben'r Rich's, Webb's, Thomas Hopkins', Wm. Waterhouse's, Fowlers; Hugh 
McLellan's, corner of High and Spring, now Mrs. Wingate's;* Isaiah Hacker's; 
Eben'r Cobb's, James Poole's, James Neal's, Poland's, Jeremy Shaw's; Carle- 
ton's, corner of Congress and Carleton; Samuel Harper's, Hancock's, Fickett's; 
Daniel Cobb's, near Fickett's. 36. Total 495. 

Stables and Barns. At Baker's, Sam'l Robinson's, Major McLellan's, Jos. 
McLellan's, Minot's, I. Starbird's, Leavitt's, Jacob Noyes', Daniel Kent's, 
Matthew Cobb's, Joseph Boyd's. 

Stores. Mr. Widgery's, J. Mussey's, Dr. Coffin's, M. Titcomb's, Jno. Deer- 
ing's, Play house, Market — where City Hall now stands. School house, Brother 
Jones's, Homer's. 

Shops and additions. To N. Cross' house, Fore street; Silsby's shop, Hopkins's 



414 deane's diary. 

sliop, Icanto to Cajit. Jordan, Jr.'s, leaiito to Capt. Aldcn's, Icanto to Rlr. Reed's; 
leanto to Evans, Jr.'s, a story to Hossack's, two Hatters' shops, Ordway's 8h6p, 
leanto to I. Bryant's shop, leanto to two hatters, leanto to Dr. Erving's house, 
Capt. Adams' shofi, leanto to Hopkins's store, leanto to Allen's house, end to 
School house, Horton's slaughter house, 2nd story to Mr. Thomas', Mead's shop, 
Weeks's bow window, t Clapp's bow window, t Hobby's bow window, t 
leanto to Abijah Poole's house, Collins' shop.* 

1801. 

Dwelling Houses. Davis', Berry & Todd's ; Dodge's, the potter, head of 
Cireen, brick; Benj. Larrabee's ; George Warren's, Clay Cove; Morris', David 
I'cttingill's ; Thos. Bradbury's, Clay Cove ; Eben. Storer's, corner of Danforth 
and High ;* Edward Cobb's brother's ; Mrs. Mat. Oxjiard's, Fore street ; Moses 
Browne's, Delano's; Mathew Cobb's, head of High ;* Capt. Stone's, Daniel New- 
man's; Daniel Mountfort's, Fore, below India; Capt. Burnhani's, Jona. Bryant's; 
Webster's, brick. Congress; Eben. Cobb's, Capen's, Osgood and J. Owen's, Irish 
Ramsey's, Richardson's, Haskell & Marr, Stover & Stover, Moses Brown's; 
Josiah Dow's, Congress ; Kearsley's, another ; James Barrett's, Federal ; Moul- 
ton's, another, Dow's, Webster & Co.'s, Mr. Tyler's, one in Green street; Mr. 
Ingraham's, corner of Danforth and State,* near Challis'; back of Merrill's; house 
near Stephen McLellan's, Elwell & Co. 43. 

Barna and Stables. David Ross', Wm. Cobb's, Samuel Butt's, Eben. Cobb's, 
Bernard Douglas', Benj. Leavitt's, Dows', Dr. Goddards', Nat. Fosdick's, Elihu 
Deering's. 

Stores. J. Mussey's, continuation of Mussey's Row; Mr. Kellogg 's, 3, Jones' 
Row; Moses Brown's. 

Shops. Davis', Drew's, Gale's, T. Mead's, Walton's, Douglass' bark-house, 
Elis Smith's shop, Folsom's, Smith's, Anthony Knight's. 

Additions. Esq Davis' otRce, Nabby Allen's house, baker Harden's, Samuel 
Butt's, to Eben. Cobb's house, to Jno. Veazie's, to Daniel Tucker's, Hugh McLel- 
lau's'wood-house, Stephen McLellan's wood-house, end to Higgin's house, story to 
Hopkins' house, Carleton's wood-house, to Mr. Swan's house. 

* This year commenced the erection of costly and beautiful mansions; those marked above 
with an asterisk, and the following erected the next year, viz., Matthew.Cobb's, head of High 
street, now owned by the Mayor of the city, Mr. Cahoon, Eben'r Storer's, at the corner of 
High and Danforth streets, now owned and occupied by John Mussey, Esq., and Jos. H. 
Ingraham's, at the corner of Danforth and State, owned and occupied by Judge Preble, were 
olijects of great attraction in their day as specimens of substantial workmanship and handsome 
style of architecture, and were not surpassed at that period by any buildings in Maine. And 
now, at the end of half a century, few dwelling houses are superior to them either in style or 
solidity. 

r These were bow cuds to their liouses; Clapp's and Hobby's are still to be seen, the former 
ni the'house built by Stone, at the corner of Pearl and Middle streets, then owned by Ca))t. 
Clapp, and uow by Albert Newhall; the other in Free sircet, the house now occupied by Mr. 
Trask. 



deane's diary. 415 

1802. 

Dwelling Houses. Joseph Gould's, Joseph Plumer's, Antliony Femald's, 
David Ross', brick, Green street, Pratt's, Ansel Lewis', brick, John Thomas', 
Isaac Ilsley, Esq.'s, brick. Spring street, still occupied by him; Mrs. Hedge s, 
Mark Walton's, Salter Q,uincy s, (Win. S.) Steven's, Wihnot street; Edward 
Oxnard's, Pratt's, 2d, one on Vaughan's land, Seth Kingman's, Joseph Thaxter's, 
Cross street, Higgins', David Wyer s, Joseph Swett's, Rlr. Emery's, Cake and 
Ale Negro house; Mr. Shaw's, rope maker, brick. State street, now occupied by F. 
Tinkham ; John Goodwin's; John Goodwins, 2d, Spring; John Light's; Mr. 
Richardson's, Cumberland ; Young Skelton's ; Stephen McLellan s. Green; Cor- 
nelius Newman's, Cumberland; JoluiMotley s, brick; Quaker Morton's, Green st. ; 
Joseph Thomas's, Cushman's, John Carr s, Wm. Woodman's, Graffam's house; 
Samuel Pearson's, brick school-house, north end; St. Paul's Church; Woodman's; 
Bartlett's. 

Stores. Dr. Erving's, Middle, where Rounds keeps ; G. Hannaford, next on 
Middle, and Webb's next ; Mrs. Mary Woodman's, Fore ; Jona. Steven's, Wm. 
Codman's ; James Deering's, Fore; Cross tSi Dearborn's; Stevens & Codman's, 
Middle. 

Barns and Shops. Daniel Cobb's, Tyler's, Lame Quaker's, Horton's, at Mr 
Swan's house, Theodore Musseys', Felts', S. Butt's stable, back of Daniel Mus- 
sey's; Baker's on Owen's; Eleazer Crabtree's, Dr. Goddard's, Stoddard's, Aaron 
Smith's, Bartlett Adams', Samuel Stoddard's, Smith Cobb's, Capt. Joseph Hani's^ 
corner of Centre and Congress; Dudley Cammett's. 

January 1, 1803, twenty-six brick dwelling houses in town."' 

1803. 

Dwelling Houses. Mr. Randall's, Cumberland ; ]\Iajor Daniel Ilsley's, Lime;- 
Mr. Samuel Butts', Widow Ligersoll's, High ; Plumer's, Richard Gooding'.s, 
Federal, brick, near Temple; Samuel Baker's, Federal ; Huston's, Green ; Jos. 
Delano's, Mrs. Cogswell's, Mrs. Edward Oxnard's, Fore; Wm. Radford's, Thos, 
Prentiss', Cross ; Daniel Cresey's, Congress ; Thomas Hovey's and Jonathan 
Stevens', brick block, on Free, now owned by J. Anderson, Esq.; Dyer's, brick; 

* These, as near as I can point out were as follows : — 1785, Gen. Wudswonh's. 1788, Benj. 
Wooilman's, Fore, near Portland Pier. 1791, Eben. Storer's, Free, Ralph Cross', Free— these 
two are the Morton and McCobb houses ; Peter Warren's, Fore, between Lime and Silver. 
1793, Col. 'Wm. Cobb's, part of American House. 1794, Daniel Davis', corner of Elm and 
Congress, now Capt. Clajjp's. 1796, Thomas Webster's, foot of Free street. 1798, the Gaol- 
er's house, Congress. 1799, Daniel How's, Pleasant ; Samuel Huss«y's, corner of School and 
Congress. 1800, Stephen Mc'Lellan's, High ; Hugh McLellan's, corner of High and Spring; 
Capt. Delano's, corner of State and Danforth. 1801, Benj. Dodge's, corner of Green and Con- 
gress ; George Warren's, Clay Cove ; Eben. Storer's, corner of High and Danforth; Jona. 
Bryant's, Congress. 1802, David Ross', Green ; Ansel Lewi.?', Isaac Ilsley's, Spring ; Neal D. 
Shaw's, State ; Stephen McLellan's, Green ; John Motley's, Rufus Horton's, Green. 

There were beside these several houses with brick ends, two brick school houses, St. Vaul's 
Church, of brick, the Gaol of stone, and numerous brick stores on Fore and Middle streets, prior 
to January 1, 1803. 



416 deane's diary. 

Dyer's, Minot's, Mrs. Sarah Fox's, Eskildson's, Dr. Nathaniel ColFin, Federal, 
part of U. S. Hotel, by Gilbert's shop. Congress; Porter Lummus', Jenks', 
adjoining Beck's, Plumb ; Ma'am Byles', Spring; Reuben Freeman's, Federal; 
Greely Hannaford's new end, Rich's; Eskildson's, Dr. Erving's, Winship's. 

Barns and Stables. Cresey's, Col. Waite's, Pratt's, Stevens' and Hovey's, 
Greely Hannaford's, Thomas Webster's, Walter Sinionton's. 

Stores. Weeks and Tucker's, two stores and Insurance office, brick, Fore 
street, head of Central wharf, (Hall and Conant, &c.); Robert Boyd's, head of 
Exchange; Jos. Ingraham's. 

Shoj)s. Gilbert's (Blacksmith,) Congress street, McLellan's Distillery, Wni. 
Ross', Berry and Todd's, Esq. Bradbury's office, Mr. Radford's, D. Osgood's, S. 
Emery's, Douglass' Slaughter house at Cove bridge, McLellan's Rope walk and 
Hemp house. End of this year, 581 dwelling houses in Portland. 

1804. 

]\Ir. Montgomery's, Congress; Lemuel Bryant's, Middle ; Stoddard's, Fore ; 
Edward Cobb's, Flagg Gould's, Washington; Noah Harding's, Congress; Merrill 
and Horton's, Congress ; Capt. Strongs, Pleasant ; Leavitt's, Pleasant ; Lemuel 
Moody's, ; Davis', Cumberland ; Stoddard's, Fore ; Winship's, Robinson and 
Barbour's, Simeon Hall's, Cumberland ; Powell's, Cumberland ; Mrs. Mayo's, 
Spruce ; John Mussey's, Pleasant; Rogers and Codrnan's, Cross, (now E. How's 
and Cammett's) ; the Washburn's, Cumberland, (now Judge Whitman's) ; two 
houses near to Mrs. Pogue's, Fore ; Joseph Veazie's, Chestnut; Daniel Bagley's 
widow's, John Mussey's, Peter's house, Cumberland, corner of Franklin, (brick); 
Jos. Fernald's, Jacob Noyes', Free, (now Charles Jones') ; the Messrs. Smiths', 
State; Maj. Lemuel Weeks', India; Abraham Osgood's, Green; Winslow's, Jacob 
Q,uincy's, Cumberland ; Montgomery's, Cumberland ; Bartlett's, Butts', Nath'l 
Dyer's, Capt. Nath'l Moody's, two near Daniel Freeman's, Wm. Knights', Chase's, 
next to Huntress's. 

Barns and Stables. Dr. Coffin's, out house to work house, by Aaron Smith's, 
Mussey's, Douglass' at Cove, Peterson's, Horton's. 

Stores. Mrs. Emmons', Green and Gale, brick, one on Weeks' wharf, Shaw's, 
D. Smith's, and others head of Union wharf, McLellan's Hemp, Greely Hanna- 
ford's, Ed. Cobb's, near Merchant Hardmg's. 

Shops. Kimball's, Cross street ; Poland's, Chair maker, one near Haggett's; 
Shaw's hemp house, shop at Horton's, Horton's Slaughter house, Osgood's bark 
house. At the end of this year, 622 dwelling houses in Portland. 

1805. 

Dwelling Houses. Samuel Cobb's, Capt. Salter's, Pleasant; Rolfe's, Robert 
Boyd's, corner of High and Pleasant; Dr. Coe's, Fitz and Wiggiu's, Ziba 
Pope's, Kearsley's, Samuel Toby & Son's, Col. Hunnewell's, Stephen Waite's, 
Mr. Yeaton's; Somerby's, Hodgekin's, Benjamin Richardson's, Brown; Fessen- 
den's, Nath. Randall's, Minot's, Joseph Gould's, Nicholas Blaisdell's. 



deane's mAKY. 417 

Bar7is and Shops. Capt. Roger's, Wm. Codman's, Wootlnian & Co.'s, Wklow 
Swcetsir's, Daniel Toby's, Yeaton's Sliop, Frost's sliop, Isaac Randall's. 

1806. 

Dwelling Houses. Capt. Nathaniel Moody's, Mr. Wm. Webb's, Federal; Goo. 
Kniglil's, Zach. Hannaford's, corner of Brown and Free, burnt in 1842; Wiibaiu 
Freeman's, next to the Second Parish meeting-house; Ansel Lewis's, Cumberland, 
Chase's, near Challis's, Pcnnell's, Commodore Preble's, brick, corner of Congress 
and Preble St.; Wm. Webb's, the Portland Bank, Middle, now Canal Bank; 
Beckett and Wm. Haskell's; two in Cumberland street; Higgin's; Shed's, corner of 
Brown and Cumberland; brick, near Douglass'; two over against Eben. Storer's, 
one back of Polly Oxnard's, Daniel Gilbert's, Brown; Daniel Cobb's, Spring st.; 
Gilbert's, Pierce's, Alexander's, Thomas Minot's, Walter Ross', Post Paine's, Clay 
Cove; one in Plumb street. 

Stores and Shops. Hart and Ross's four stores, Willis's four stores: (these eight 
stores, four stories, brick, are Hay Market Row: the hay market stood on the heater, 
opposite where the City Hall now is;) B. Richardson's shop. Brown; Thomas 
Chase's two stores, Wm. Davis's shop; store No. 1, Portland Pier. 

Stables and Barns. Behind Hosea Ilsley's, Thurston's, near Wm. Moody's 
bouse, Mr. Horatio Southgate's, Cornelius Newman's, 

1807. 

Dwelling Houses, SfC. Monument house, (Observatory ;) Simeon Hall's, 
Cumberland ; Friend Boyd's, near Challis' ; Prentiss Mellen's, State, now W. P. 
Fessenden's ; Wm. McLellan, Jr.'s, High ; Wm. Merrill's, Pleasant ; Arthur 

McLellan's, Plumb, near Academy; Eben. Libby's, John Robert's, Jolm , 

Davis's, Nathaniel Shaw's; Gun house, near Challis', back of new Meeting house: 
new Academy; Eleazer Greeley's, Danforth street, now Judge Pams'; Tristram 
Vaughan's, next to Greeley's, now E. Fox's; J. D. Hopkins', corner of Danforth 
and Brackett, now John Bartels'; new Meeting house, 3d Parish. 

Barns and Stables. Ezekiel Whitman's, R. Washburn's, Com. Preble's, T. 
Motley's, joining burying place, Mr. Shed's. 

Stores and Shops. Hugh McLellan's, Stephen CoJman's, Wm. Moulton, Jr.'s. 

1808. 

Dwelling Houses. Noah Harding's; Atwood Marwick's, Federal; Ross'; Jas. 
Farmer's, Wilmot; Abraham Osgood's, Green; Sumner and Martin Thaxter ; Jchn 
and Eben Owen's, Fore, corner of Cross ; Smith's, next to Capt. Stephenson's; 
James Whylley's, Federal. 

Barns and Stables. Mr. Shed's, Ansel Lewis', Major Day's. 

Shops. Davis', David Dana's. 

1S09. 

Dwelling Houses. Capt. Crabtree's, S. Jones's, Capt. Pritchard's ; Major 
Day's, Elm street. 

This is the last entry of buildings erected ; there were very few, if any, added 
during the remainder of his life. 
53 



APPENDIX. 



P R r. P A ( ; E T A P P E i\ ]) I X 



The preceding pages have so much exceeded the expectation both of myself and 
the publisher, that I am obliged to omit from the appendix, most of the matter 
which Mr. Freeman included in that part of the first edition. This is not very 
deeply to be regretted, because the facts are accessible in other forms; and later 
researches have given us more accurate knowledge on the principal subjects. But 
what I most regret is, the necessity I am under to omit the alphabetical tables of 
deaths and marriages contained in Dr. Deane's diary, which I had promised and 
prepared ; also the intentions of marriage, the births and deaths, recorded on the 
Falmouth town books, prior to the incorporation of Portland. But it was found 
that this matter would occupy at least seventy closely printed pages; that it would 
delay the publication of the work much beyond the tune announced for it, and too 
much increase the price of the volume. It is therefore reluctantly dispensed with. 
Many of the deaths which occurred m Deane's time, are mentioned in the diary, 
and both those, and many of the marriages and births, are recorded in my 
biographical notes. The intentions of marriage on the town books begin in 1733, 
and down to 1786, number about 950; the record of the births and deaths is very 
meagre ; the former are continued only to 1740, and embrace three hundred and 
twenty-four names, the latter but nineteen names, and end in 1737. 

The appendix opens with a biographical notice of Samuel Freeman, the editor 
of the first edition of Smith's Journal, which I cannot but consider appropriate in 
this place. Tliis is followed by a summary history of Portland, from its origm to 
the present time, with comparative views of its condition at difierent periods. To 
which are added, statements of the commercial and mechanical operations of the 
town, of the public improvements and private enterprises undertaken by its citizens, 
and tables of the representatives, and town and county officers to the present day. 
I have also given an account of the various institutions of charity, education and 
religion ; which will exhibit, I think, a full and faithful picture of our beloved city, 
at the present time. " All which," to use the language of my venerable prede- 
cessor's preface, "I thought would be useful and entertaining ; " At any rate, 
it will preserve intei-esting and valuable facts for future use. 

W. 



MEMOIR 



OF 



SAMUEL F 11 E E M A N 



Samuel Freeman, editor of the first edition of Rev. Mr. Smith's Journal, 
and to wiiom we are probably indebted for what remains of that valuable diary, is 
entitled to be placed on the same page with the two venerable names with whom 
he was associated so long in life, and has now joined in death. He was an officer 
with the associated pastors, fourteen years, and with Mr. Deane alone, after the 
decease of Mr. Smith, nineteen years; and for a period of fifty years, he was one 
of the most active, useful and philanthropic of our citizens. 

He was the oldest son of Enoch Freeman, of whom and whose family a partic- 
ular account is given in another part of this work, and was bom in this town June 
15, 1743. In the early part of his life he engaged in trade and school keeping, and 
occasionally acted as an Attorney at Law, before any regular Attornies were settled 
in town. But this latter vocation he was obliged, very reluctantly, to abandon, on 
the adoption of Bar rules in 1770, which excluded from practise persons not duly 
admitted to the profession. This exclusion gave great offence to Mr. Freeman, 
which he expressed in a number of bitter essays against the rule and the Bar. 

In the agitations which preceded hostilities in the American revolution, liis mind 
partook of the prevailing excitement, and he threw himself with ardor into the 
prominent measures of the whigs. In 1774, he was appointed one of the Com- 
mittee of the town to meet and correspond with Committees from other towns, "on 
the alarming situation of public affairs." A general meeting of these Committees 
vi^as held on the Neck in September, of which his father was appointed Chaii-man , 
and himself clerk, which took a controlling influence over public opinion and con- 
duct. The next year he was elected sole delegate to the Provincial Congress from 
Falmouth, and the same, and the two succeeding years, was appointed Secretary 
to that body, the duties of which he ably discharged. He was re-elected to the 
Congress in 1776 and 1778. 



422 .SAMUEL FREEMAN. 

While he was in altcndance upon Congress, he received from government tlie 
appointment of Clerk of the Courts for the County of Cumberland, which office he 
held, witli the exception of one year in the time of Gov. Gerry, until 1820, a period 
of forty-six years. The income of this office was at first exceedingly small, being 
only #15 for the year 1776; for the first twenty years, it averaged but #123 
a year; but for the last fifteen years, it averaged $1,975 a year, and in 1808 it 
rose to #4,080. 

The same year, 1776, ho was appointed Register of Probate, and held the office 
until he was appointed Judge of Probate, as successor to Judge Gorhani, in 1804; 
this he held until the separation from Massachusetts in 1820, making a period of 
forty-six years in the two offices. The duties of these several offices, he discharged 
with great fidelity and promptness, of which other evidence than the length of time 
which he was permitted to occupy them, could be adduced, if necessary. In the 
Probate department, he was eminently the friend of the widow and orphan. lie 
liad a remarkable facility in dispatching business ; in casting interest and running 
up a column of figures, he seemed to have almost an intuitive faculty. 

The same year, which was certainly a memorable one in his life, as it was in 
the annals of the country, m addiiion to his other offices, he was appointed Post 
Master of the town, which office he held twenty-nine years ; when, according to the 
doctrine of the New Haven memorial, not being ready to die, nor willmg to resign, 
Mr. Jefferson removed him, for a very anxious expectant, Thomas M. Prentiss, who 
had been keeping a private school in town.* In addition to these various and 
responsible occupations, he was actively employed as a magistrate for the trial of 
civil and criminal cases, discharging the duties which are now devolved upon the 
Municipal Court. 

Nor was the confidence of his fellow citizens less in him, than that of govern- 
ment; in 1781, he was chosen deacon of the First Church, and continued in office 
about 45 years, to near his death. In 1788, he was elected one of the Selectmen 
of the town, and with the exception of one year, was chosen twenty-five years, 
many of which he served as chairman. In 1802, on the establishment of the 
Maine Bank, he was chosen its President, and discharged its duties, then new and 
untried, beuig the first Bank in Maine, several years. He was also a number of 
years. President of the Overseers of Bowdoin College, and its Treasurer. 

*The Post Office, under the direction of Massachusetts, was first opened June 3, 1775, and so 
continued until October 4th of that year ; after which, it was takeu into the charge of the 
United Colonies, and instructions were given by Benjamin Fraiilvlin, Postmaster General at 
Philadelphia. The mail was received and forwarded once a week until 1789, when it was 
received and sent twice a week. The mail was carried on horseback to Portsmouth, by 
Joseph Barnard, who kept tavern in Kennebunk, until 1787, when he employed a two horse 
wagon and took passengers. Mr. Freeman's income as Postmaster for several years was as 
follows: 1776, .£2, 3s. 6d.; 1779,16s. 4d.-, 1780, 8s. 4d.; 1785, .£lO. 3s. Od. which was the 
highest for the first eleven years ; the aggregate for those eleven years was £40, 2s. .5d. For 
the first year the lettcri? did not average five a week-, in 1783, the whole number was fifty-seven, 
in 1785, it was several hundred. Tlie postage ranged from five and a qnartcr pence, to 
thirteen pence on a letter, Thomas Child, Mr. Freeman's brother-in-law was Post Master 
loefore the revolution. 



SAMUEL FREEMAN. 423 

The following paper, in his own hand-writing, shows the numerous trusts which 
he held at one time, at the age of 54 years. "Minutes of the different kinds of 
liusiness in which I am engaged , Sept. 1797. Official: as Justice of the Peace, 
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Clerk of the Court of the General Sessions 
of the Peace, Register of Probate, Post Master, Selectman, one of the School Com- 
mittee, Clerk of the Proprietors of Sufferers' townships, one of the Committee of 
the Proprietors to settle the towns, ditto to purchase lands for settlers : Treasurer 
of Bowdom College, Committee to sell townships granted to said College; Clerk of 
Four Eastern Townships, (Narraguagus lands,) Agent for ditto; Committee for 
building the goal; Parish Committee and Assessor; Committee for building the 
school house; Secretary of the Portland Academy; Committee to sell lands in 
Standish; Administrator and Guardian in several cases." 

We believe no other man ever held so many responsible trusts, at one time, and 
none was ever more faithful in the discharge of his duties; it is difficult to conceive 
the versatility of talent and capacity of endurance, which would enable him to go 
through the routine of these various offices. At the same time he was employed 
in preparing works for publication, which had a great value in their day; we refer 
to his Town Officer, Clerk's Magazine, and Probate Directory. In that period 
there were no books of forms suited to the wants of our community, and these, 
skilfully prepared by Mr. Freeman, and adapted to the various business of the day, 
had an extensive circulation, and passed through several editions. 

His last work, the child of his old age, was the preparation of Smith's Journal for 
publication, when he was verging upon 80 years. The study and revision of the 
Journal itself, passing minutely through a period of 68 years, must have been a 
labor severely taxing the powers of an octogenarian; but he went far beyond this, 
and added to the value of the work, by a well condensed summary of historical 
and statistical facts, a portion of which it would be difficult, if not impossible, for 
any one to reach but himself. And while we are apt to find ourselves complaining 
because he withheld, and finally destroyed, as much at least of the original Journal 
as he published, yet we must not fail to render to him our sincere thanks, that so 
much of that invaluable record has been preserved. And are less disposed to 
complain of him , when we know that it was confided to hhn by the only surviving 
children of Mr. Smith, with an injunction, that he should not permit it to go out of 
his own hands, and that he should destroy it, after it had accomplished his purpose. 
This injunction was given from motives of delicacy, that ought not to be condemned, 
as it was designed to prevent the dissemination of private anecdotes, that might 
leave unfavorable impressions, in regard to persons and families with whom the 
pastor had lived on friendly and familiar terms, and whose descendants were filling 
honorable places among us. * 

In his private and domestic character, he was distinguished for uniform kindness 
and conscientiousness. It was based upon religious principle, which was early 
inculcated, and nurtured by constant circumspection. In 1773, at the age of thii'ty, 
he united himself with the Church of the 1st Parish, of which, he always remained 
a valued and consistent member. On the 3rd of November, 1777, he married 



424 SAMUEL FREEMAN. ' 

Mary Fowle, of Watcrtown, six years younger tlian himself, with whom his 
attendance upon the Legislature probably made him accjuainted. By her, he had 
three children — Mary, born Sept. 21, 1778, married to Jonatlian Bryant, and died 
July 31, 1832; Samuel Deane, born May 29, 1781, graduated at II. C. 1800, and 
died unmarried Sept. 17, 1S31; William, born July 2, 1783, graduated at II. C. 
1804, with the reputation of a good scholar, and is now living and in the practice 
of law, at Cherryfield, in Maine. lie married Clarissa Clark, of Boston, by 
whom he has a family of children. Mrs. Freeman died January 7, 1785; and 
on the 7th of February, 1786, he married Betty, the widow of Pearson Jones, 
and eldest daughter of Enoch llsley, of this town, who was- born Oct. 6, 17.54. 
Her husband, Jones, died in 1781, by whom she had three children, Enoch, 
William and Anne, married first to Jacob Noyes, second to Cotton B. Brooks. By 
her, Mr. Freeman had six children, viz., Elizabeth, born Nov. 7, 1786, married to 
Elnathan Duren, and died August 28, 181.5 ; Dorcas, born June 30, 1789, married 
to Henry Homes, of Boston, and died April 23, 1813; Henry, born March 2, 1792, 
and died unmarried, Nov. 9, 1834 ; Charles, born June 3, 1794, graduated at 
Bowdoin College in 1812, and settled in the ministry at Limerick, Maine, in 1820, 
where he still continues ably and faithfully to dis(;harge the duties of the pastoral 
office ; George, born March 9, 1796, graduated at Bowdoin College, 1812, died 
unmarried, in the midst of the brightest promises, May 27, 1815; and Charlotte, 
born March 6, 1800, married to the Rev. John Boynton, of Phipsburg. Three only 
of this large family survive, and neither of them continue in this, their native town. 
This suggests a sad thought; as we cast our eyes over the names of men, who, 
in their day,lilleda large space in thestirring annals of our town, and for whose fame 
and ambition the town was too small, we find now many, of whom not a descendant 
among us bear their names. If the works and the odor pf their good deeds do not 
preserve them, they are dead indeed to the world ; Cleeves, Mitton, Munjoy, 
Phillips, Bowdoin, Tyng, Clark, Sylvanus Davis ; and to come to our modern 
history. East, Wheeler, Pearson, Waldo, Westbrook, Bangs, Preble, Milk, Cotton, 
Jones, Titcomb, Coffin, Mayo, Smith, Deane. Nothing of them remains here, but 
the good or evil of their brief day, and the blood which may flow i« collateral 
streams. 

The excellent woman, with whom Mr. Freeman lived in entire confidence and 
happiness forty-four years, died in March, 1831, in the 78th year of her age. In 
about three months afterwards, on the 15th of June, he followed her to the repose 
of the tomb, at the close of his 8Sth year, laden with years, and comforted with 
the consciousness of a well spent life, and the hope of a reunion with the loved in a 
better world. 

Mr. Freeman was tall and erect in his person, of a good figure, and a grave, but 
benevolent countenance. It has been often said, and it concurs with my own 
observation, that his features resembled those in the portrait of Washington. His 
nose was large, considerably broad, and gave a dignified and manly expression to 
his face. He continued to the last to wear breeches and shoes with bucldes, and 
the old fashioned stock around his neck. In regard to the other appendages of the 



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old regime, the wig, cocked hat and expansive coat, he yielded to modern 
degeneracy, in deference to the prevailing customs. By an entry in his father's 
account book, in February, 1754, it appears that Samuel, then ten years old, and 
his two younger brothers, had for some time previous, undergone the operation of 
shaving the head, to receive that indispensable appendage of the day, a wig. 

Mr. Freeman's eyesight continued good to the last ; he never havmg had occasion 
to wear spectacles; in early life he was near sighted. 

It was his fortune to live tlnough most interesting periods in the history of 
Portland. At the time he came upon the stage, it was an inconsiderable village, 
containing a population not exceeding seven hundred souls, in a rude state in regard 
to its style of habitations, and the comforts, as we term them, of life. He 
witnessed its continued growth, until it was entirely cast down by a vindictive 
enemy, and lay for years in ruins. Again he beheld it taking a sudden start, 
rapidly improving its natural advantages, spreading its business extensively and 
numbering a population of nearly six thousand, when it was again arrested in its 
progress by commercial embarrassments and war, and reduced to the severest 
distress. From this cloud it once more emerged, and took a new and onward 
course in a career of substantial prosperity. He took leave of it at a period, when 
it was giving evidence of a well established and permanent growth, with a 
population of thirteen thousand, and all the tokens of mcrease in the various 
institutions which adorn and dignify a people, and render them happy and 
prosperous. To many of these, Mr. Freeman largely contributed, for others he 
laid the foundations; and it is not claiming too much for him, to say, that during 
the half century of his active life, there were very few good undertakings of a 
public, benevolent, patriotic or Christian enterprise in the town, which he did not 
originate, or which were not largely indebted to him for substantial aid, if not for 
ultimate success. For these, he is entitled to be recorded among the benefactors 
of this couuuuuity and his name ever to be held iu remembrance. 



54 



SUMMARY 
IIISTOIIY OF PORTLAND 



Ancient Falmouth originally embraced Cape Elizabeth, Portland, Fai- 
inouth and Westbrook, together with a number of large and valuable Islands iu 
Casco Bay, lying at the mouth of the harbor. The first occupation by a European, 
of any part of the territory was at Richmond's Island, near the mouth of Spurwmk 
river, in 1728. This spot from its local situation, beuig on the high way of coast- 
ing business, having the sea, with its ample stores of fish, on one side, and the 
forest with its woods, its furs, and its savage tenants on the other, gave it great 
advantages and caused a rapid growth. It become a resort for fishermen; a consid- 
erable foreign commerce was carried on, and an Episcopal Church was established 
there. Before 1648 we have accounts of large ships arriving there, and taking 
cargoes for Europe. In 1638, a ship of three hundred tons was sent to the Island 
laden with wme, and the same year, Mr. Trelawny, of Plymouth, England, the 
proprietor employed sixty men at the Island iu fishing; and m 1639, John Winter, 
his Agent, sent home in the bark Richmond 6000 pipe staves. The future history 
of this part of the town did not sustain this precocious promise. After the death of 
Winter, the prime mover in these affairs, about 1648, its commerce declined, its 
population fell off", and after the first Indian war, it ceased to be a place of any 
business or importance. The Island is now a single farm, devoted to potatoes, 
with one solitary house upon it. 

That part of the town now called Portland, owes its settlement at the particular 
time it was made, to a contest in regard to the title to land at the month of Spur- 
wink river, between Winter as the Agent of Trelawny, on the one part, and 
George Clecves and Richard Tucker on the other. Winter succeeded in the 
Provincial Court, in sustaining the title of Trelawny, and the ejected parties sought 
refuge in 1632, upon the Neck, now Portland. This Neck, Cleeves declared "was 
known first by the name of Machigonne, being a neck of land which was in no 
man's possession or occupation, and therefore he seized upon it as his own iniieri- 
tance, by virtue of a royal proclamation of our late sovereign lord Kuig James of 
blessed memory, hy which he freely gave nnto every subject of his which siiould 



PORTLAND. 427 

transport himself over info this country, upon his own charge, for himself and for 
every person that lie should so transport, 150 acres of land." He further declared 
that he continued the occupation from year to year under this possession without 
interruption or demand of any; at the end of which time, heing "desirous to 
enlarge his limits in a lawful way, addressed himself to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the 
proprietor of this Province, and obtained, for a sum of money, and other consid- 
erations, a warrantable lease of enlargement, bounded as by relation thereunto 
had, doth and may appear." 

This statement is made in an action which Winter brought against Cleeves in 
1640 to recover possession of this tract too, claiming the whole under a grant to 
Trelawny ; in this he failed, and Cleeves was left in full possession. This is the 
origin of Portland, which was first called Cleeves' Neck, then Munjoy's Neck, and 
sometimes Casco, and old Casco, from its position on Casco river and bay. 

The lease referred to, bears date January 27, in the 12th year of the reign of 
Charles 1st, whose reign began March 29, 1625, which would make the date Jan. 
24, 1637. It is an indenture " between Sir Ferdinando Gorges, of Ashton Phillipes, 
in the county of Somerset, Knight, of the one party, and George Cleeves, of 
Casco, in the Province of New Somerset, in New England, in America, Esquire, 
and Richard Tucker, of Casco, aforesaid, Gent., of the other party; it recites the 
consideration to be £100. The following is the description of the premises : "All 
that part, purpart and portion of land in America, parcell of New England, in 
America, hereafter in these presents described. * * that is to say, that part 
&c., of lands beginning at the furthermost point of a neck of land called by the 
Indians Machigonne, and now and forever henceforth to be called and known by 
the name of Stogummor, and so along the same westerly as it tendeth to the first 
fall of a little river issuing out of a very small pond, and from thence over land to 
the falls of Pesumsca, being the first falls on that river upon a strait line, containing 
by estimation, from fall to fall, near about an English mile; which, together with 
the said neck of land that the said George Cleeves and the said Richard Tucker 
have planted for divers years already expired, is estimated in the whole to be 150O 
acres, or thereabouts, as also one Island adjacent to the said premises, and now in 
the tenor and occupation of the said George Cleeves and Richard Tucker, com- 
monly called and known by the name of Hogg Island." The term of the lease 
was 2000 years, paying the yearly rent of two shilhngs the hundred for every 
hundred acres. 

Possession was given June 8, 1637, by Arthur Mackworth, who lived on the 
point at the mouth of Presimipscot river, which, with the Island opposite, are 
called Mackeifs — a coruption of his name. 

This lease is the origin of the titles to a large portion of this domain, containing, 
it is apparent, much more than 1500 acres, as held at this day. Cleeves on his 
return with his lease, brought over his son-in-law, Michael Mitton, with his family, 
and leased to him for 60 years, under authority from Gorges, Peak's then called 
Pond island, at the mouth of the harbor, and afterwards, Jan. 1, 1651, conveyed 
to him one hundred acrea of land, at Clark's point on the Neck, " adjoining his 



428 PORTLAND. 

dwelling house, which he had possessed for ten years," and in 1G58, a farther tract, 
(juginnitig at the point of rocks, where Sawyer's wharf now is, and extending west 
to his other pureiuise and across to the Cove. 

Cleeves and Tucker parcelled out their land to various persons, on the Neck, at 
Back Cove, and on Presumpscot river, under whom it is now in many cases held, 
particularly and most prominently the Bramhall title, embracing the hill at the 
western end of the Neck, which bears his name; the Brackett title, extending from 
Bramhall's down below High street, and stretching across the town; and the Munjoy 
title, covering the promontory at the eastern end of the Neck, nearly up to India 
street. The original deeds of the Bramhall and Munjoy titles are in my possession ; 
the first is from Cleeves to Hope Allen, dated May 23, 1660, from whom it came to 
George Bramhall, who lived and carried on a tannery under the hill, and who was 
killed there by the Indians in the Second Indian war. The original deed from 
Cleeves of Munjoy 's hill is dated in September, 1659, and was made to John 
Phillips of Boston, whose only daughter Mary, George Munjoy married about 1652. 
Munjoy, who came from Boston, was an accomplished man, and for many years a 
most active and useful citizen and magistrate of the town. His family held the 
property until the resettlement of the town in 1718, when they sold it to some 
speculators, who were then purchasing old titles. The Brackett title descended 
from Cleeves, whose only daughter, Elizabeth, married Michael Mitton. Mitton's 
daughter, Anne, married Anthony Brackett, and his daughter, Mary, Thomas 
Brackett, Anthony's brother, whose descendants retained a large portion of the 
property, until after the revolution, parting with it gradually, as the wants of the 
town pressed upon it. Thomas Brackett was killed near his dwelling house, in the 
neighborhood of Clark's point, in 1676, by the Indians; and Anthony by the same 
enemy, on his farm, at Back Cove, now occupied by Mr. Deering, in 1689. 
Thaddeus Clark, from whom Clark's point derives its name, came from Ireland, 
married Elizabeth, another daughter of Michael Mitton, and lived near the point. 
His eldest daughter Elizabeth, married Capt. Edward Tyng, distinguished in the 
history of Massachusetts, and his youngest, John Graves. Mitton had but one son, 
Nathaniel, who was killed by the Indians, unmarried, and thus the name became 
extinct. But the blood of our first settlers flows though innumerable and honored 
channels, scattered far and wide through the country. 

George Cleeves erected his house fronting the bay, just east of India street, and 
his corn field stretched westerly to near Clay Cove. In his deed to Phillips, we have 
the following description: "all that tract, parcel or Neck, in Casco bay, and now in 
possession of me the said George Cleeves, on which my dwelling house standeth by 
the meets and bounds herein expressed, that is to say, to begin at the point of land 
commonly called Machigonne, and being northeasterly from my said house, and so 
along by the water side from the house south westerly, to the south west side of 
my corn field." George Munjoy lived a little east.* Phillips did not come here to 

* The following deposition, given by John Alliset, in Boston, May 6, 1736, states some 
interesting facts on this subject. " John Alliset, aged ahout 80 years, tcstifieth and saitli, that 
lit formerly lived in Falmouth, in Casco bay, and that he well knew Mr. George Cleeves, and 



PORTI,AND. 420 

reside: he in connection with Munjoy carried on a large business in lumber, and 
the latter purchased an extensive tract at Saccarappa, including the falls there, 
which was afterwards called the Cooper claim. Phillips was a merchant in Boston 
and deacon of the North Church; he died there in 1683. 

The name of Falmouth was given to the town, by the Conmiissioners of Massa- 
chusetts, in July, 1658, when that Province extended her jurisdiction over the 
western part of Maine. They say, "Those places formerly called Spurwink and 
Casco bay, from the east side of Spurwink river, to the Clapboard islands, in Casco 
bay, shall run back eight miles into the country, and henceforth shall be called by 
the name of Falmouth." 

This conventional name could not, and did not supersede the familiar Indian 
names, by which particular spots are designated, such as Spurwink, Purpoodoc, 
Capisic, Saccarappa, and Casco. The name by which that part of the territory 
now called Portland was first known, after the resettlement, until its separate incor- 
poration, was the JVecA;, which it received at an early day, from its peculiar shape, 
being a projection, or tongue of land, with a high promontory, Munjoy's hill, at its 
extremity, stretching into the bay from the main land, and nearly surrounded by 
water; its length being about three miles, and its average width about three quarters 
of a mile. 

Previous to the first Indian war in 1675, the settlements increased with 
considerable rapidity; by 1660, they had extended from Martin's Point on the 
Presumpscot, which took its name from Richard Martin, its earliest occupant, round 
Back Cove to Fore river. At Purpoodoc, were 'the Phippens, Whites, Stanna 
fords, Penleys and Wallises. At Spurwink, the Jovdans, with their ancestor, the 
Rev. Robert at their head, who married Winter's only child. On the Neck, 
which had not so many advantages for agriculture, and which was occupied by 
large proprietors, there were fewer in number ; Cleeves occupied the eastern 
extremity, Mitton's family the western, and Tucker the central part. 

At the commencement of that war, there were over forty families in the whole 
town, five or six of whom were upon the Neck, viz., Thomas Brackett, Thaddeus 
Clark, George Munjoy, John Munjoy his son, George Burroughs, the minister, 
Elizabeth Harvey the daughter of Cleeves, who had married a second husband 
after the death of Mitton, who was also dead, and who died herself in 1682. The 

Mr. George Munjoy, and Mary his wife, with whom he lived eight years, and that there is a 
certain run of water, about twenty rods distant from the Fort point, laying about north from 
the said Fort point. That he well remembers that Mr. George Cleeves had a house and lived 
therein, which was upon the northeasterly side of said run of water; that he also well remem- 
bers that there was a meeting house built on a point of Mr. Munjoy's laud, bearing about nurlh 
east or easterly from Mr. Munjoy's house. " 

All who were familiar with the town, 25 or 30 years ago, will remember the run ot 
water, which flowed down from the hill on to the beach; the water is now brought down by 
an acqueduct, for the supply of vessels. The meeting-house was on Jordan's point, where the 
Portland Co. 's work's now are; and the Fort, Fort Loyal, on the point at the foot of India 
street. The magician's wand has touched all those old spots, their identity is gone, and the old 
settlers no mor« recogui/.e their former landmark.'i. 



•430 PORTLAND. 

Munjoy.s occupied tho eastern end of the Neck, and Drackctt and Mrs. Harvey the 
western end; a portion of the central part was swampy and covered with bushes 
and trees, and furrowed with gullies; on another portion, George Burroughs lived. 

Cleeves at this time was dead; his last appearance was in November, 1666, and 
he probably died soon after, at a very advanced age : in 1662, he states his wife's 
age to have been 87. Tucker had meved to Portsmouth, N. H., where his widow 
Margaret was living in 1681, in which year she made a conveyance to her grand 
son, Nicholas Hodge; by which, I infer that her daughter married a Hodge, and 
that Ann Hodge of Newbury, the wife first of Phineas Jones and afterwards of 
Jabez Fox, was a descendant from Richard Tucker, so that his blood is mingled 
with that of the Fox's, Waite's, &c., here, who now occupy a portion of the land 
which their ancestor first opened to the light of civilization. Michael Hodge, of 
Salisbury, mariner, in 1742, conveyed to Phineas Jones a tract of land on the 
Neck, and therein recited that he was the " only representative said Richard 
Tucker hath." The descendants of Ann Hodge through her daughters, Hannah 
married to John Waite, Ann married to Richard Codman, and the children of 
Jabez Fox, are numerous, and are particularly noticed in other parts of the work. 

In 1675, the town was flourishing; in the fisheries, in lumber and agriculture, jt.s 
resources were ample, and they were rapidly improving; the sites most favorable 
to these pursuits were occupied, and there was every token given of a rising and 
populous settlement; but in the midst of these bright prospects, the Indian war let 
loose upon the peaceful inhabitants, the untamed ferocity of the children of the 
forest, who overran and destroyed every vestige of improvement, sacrificing the 
lives of all who stood in their way, and prostrating, by the firebrand and tomahawk, 
the whole settlement in indiscriminate ruin. In this sack, thirty-four persons were 
killed and taken captive; among the killed, were Thomas Brackett, John Munjoy 
and Isaac Wakeley, upon the Neck; Thomas Brackett's family was carried into 
captivity, with several others in other parts of the town. 

The place remained desolate during the remainder of the war. On the 
conclusion of peace by a treaty made at Casco, April 12, 1678, the inhabitants 
began to return to their ruined sites. In November of that year, George Bramhall, 
of Portsmouth, purchased of Edward Allen, the hill which bears his name, 
embracing four hundred acres, formed a settlement upon it, and carried on tanning 
there; Anthony Brackett returned to his farm in 1679, and other settlers flocked in 
to occupy the old sites, or receive grants of new lots. In the mean time, Massa- 
chusetts had secured her title, not only to the jurisdiction, but to the soil, by a 
purchase of the territory, from the heir of Sir F. Gorges, lying between the 
Piscataqua and the mouth of the Kennebec ; the deed bears date March 15, 
1678 ; they established a government over it, at the head of which, Thomas 
Danforth, of Boston, was appointed. Fort Loyal was erected 1680, at the foot of 
India street, and in September of that year, Gov. Danforth held a Court in it for 
the purpose of regulating a new settlement, and arranging the inhabitants in a 
compact manner, with a view to protection from future attacks by the Indians. 
'•'The fort was erected and the house lots ordered on a considerable part of 



PORTLAND. 431 

Clceves' cornfield."* On the west side of Clay Cove, eight lots were granted, 
among which, were John, George and Samuel lugersoU's, the latter being at the 
foot of what is now Exchange street, the former where Willow enters Fore street, 
and George's between them, though not occupying the whole distance. These lots 
are held under those titles, at this day. Lots were granted on India, then called 
Broad street, and on the bay east of it. The old titles were respected where claims 
were interposed. In 1681, a special agreement was entered into between the 
government and Mrs. Munjoy, by which her title to Munjoy's hill was forever 
secured to her, her heirs and assigns. Her husband, Munjoy, died in 1680, and 
the same year she married Capt. Robert Lawrence, for her second husband, who, 
being killed in the second Indian war, left her, to be consoled by a third husband, 
Stephen Cross, of Boston, where she died in 1705, without issue by either of her 
husbands but Munjoy. t 

Capt. Lawrence built a stone house upon Munjoy's hill, and houses were erected 
in the neighborhood of the Fort and other parts of the Neck, some of which, as 
those of Tyng, Clark and Branihall, were on the banks of the river above where 
State street is — Bowdoin's was below. The character of the inhabitants in this 
middle period of our history, was of a superior order; there were among them, Peter 
Bowdoin, or more properly Pierre Baudouin, and his son in law, Stephen Bouti- 
neau, two French Huguenots, who fled from France on the repeal of the edict of 
Nantz; Mr. Bowdoin was a physician of Rochelle, who subsetjuently established 
himself in Boston, and was the ancestor of the respectable family there of that 
name; Phillip Barger, Phillip Le Bretton, Augustine Jean, the ancestor of the 
Gustins now living here, were probably others of the same persecuted sect who 
sought refuge in this land. Besides these were George Burroughs, the minister, 
Thaddeus Clark, the Bracketts, Silvanus Davis, John Graves, Henry Harwood, the 
Ingersolls, Robert Lawrence and Edward Tyng. Davis was a man of great enter- 
prise and intelligence ; he had a thorough knowledge of this coast, and under the 
charter of 1691 was a Counsellor in Massachusetts for Sagadahock. He was cap- 
tured in the second Indian attack on Falmouth in 1690, and being exchanged after 
the peace, established his residence in Boston, where he died in 1703. Edward 

*B. Blackman's report to Gov. Andross, March 27, 1688. 

t George Munjoy was son ol' John Munjoy of Ahbotsham, in the county of Devon, England, 
and born in 1626; was admitted freeman in Massachusetts, 1647: lie had a sister Mary, who 
married John Saunders of Craintree. His children were, John, Mary, George, Josiah, Telatiah, 
and Hepzibah. John the eldest, born in Boston, April 17, 1653, was hilled, as before 
stated, in 1676, leaving a widow and one daughter, Hiddah. Mary married John Palmer, 
and died without issue. George was born in Boston, April 21, 1656; he died in Braintree, in 
1698, leaving Josiah, and two daughters, Mary, married to Philip Thompson of Roxburj , 
physician; the other, Joanna, married Gwynn, and was living a widow in Boston, in 1751. 
Josiah, was born in Boston, April 4, 1658; he was living in Charlcstown, in 1710, where his 
daughter, Martha, was then born; Martha married Capt. John Pulling of Boston, October 18, 
1730; and another daughter, Mary, married Capt. James Hornby; he had also a son John. 
Pelatiah died without issue; Hepzibah married Mortijnore. The name has been for many 
years e.vtinct through this branch of the family, whicli probably dtoccndcd from the Norraaa 
family ofMountjoie, 



432 PORTLAND. 

Tyng came here in 1680, and soon after married the daughter of Thaddeus Clark, 
and grand daughter of George Cleeves, by whom he had four children : Edward, 
born 1683; Jonathan, who died young; Mary, married Rev. John Fox, of Woburn, 
and Elizabeth, married a brother of Dr. Franklin. The Fox's now resident here 
are lineal descendants through their ancestors, Rev. John and Jabez,the first comer 
here, of Cleeves, and as we have before seen, from Richard Tucker through Ann 
Hodge; so that the blood of Cleeves and Tucker, our two first settlers, is united in 
this family ; and being town born too, they are doubly entitled to the freedom of 
the city. Edward Tyng commanded Fort Loyal in 1680 and '81, and was a Coun- 
cillor in Massachusetts in 1686. He had three houses in town, one near the Fort, 
and one in which he lived — a very respectable mansion, on the bank, just above 
State street. He was subsequently appointed Gov. of Annapolis, and on his 
passage thither, he was captured by the French and carried to France, where he 
died. His son Edward became distinguished in the Naval service; was appointed 
Commodore of the squadron from Massachusetts in the attack on Louisburg in 
1745, and in the Province brig of 24 guns, captured the French ship Vigilant, of 
64 guns. He died in Boston, Sept. 8, 1755. Thaddeus Clark was killed by the 
Indians in an ambuscade, with thirteen of the company he commanded, in 1690; 
liis widow died in Boston in 1736, aged 92. 

With such enterprising and respectable men, it could not be otherwise than that 
the town should have a rapid and prosperous growth ; and we find in the ten years 
between the two wars, the population had grown to be about 700. Of this number 
about twenty-five families lived on the Neck, forty at Purpoodock, Spurwink and 
Stroudwater; the remainder at Back Cove, Capisic and Presumpscot. These were 
zealously pursuing their various occupations^ subduing the forest, brhiging the 
lands under cultivation, and scouring the bay in pursuit offish; when they were 
suddenly aroused by distant rumors of Indian aggressions. In August, 1688, the 
enemy began to make depredations upon cattle in the eastern plantations, and 
threatened the lives of the planters. Stimulated by the French, they became 
bolder, entering the houses of the English in a menacing manner, giving intimations 
that, assisted by the French, they should commence war upon the English. In 
Sept., 1688, Capt. Tyng endeavored to conciliate the Indians in this neighborhood; 
but his efi'orts were rendered ineffectual, partly by a hasty step taken in Saco, in 
the arrest of from sixteen to twenty of the leading Indians, who were sent under 
guard to Falmouth. Measures, too, taken by Gov. Andross in strengthening the 
Forts and sending recruits of troops to this coast, precipitated the enemy in their 
movements ; and the first blood was spilt in this war at North Yarmouth in Sept. , 
by an attack of a party of seventy or eighty Indians on the English under Capt. 
Gendall, while he was attempting to construct stockades there. 

The government used vigorous measures : garrisons were established at difierent 
points on the coast of Maine, into winch about six hundred men were distributed; 
sixty were stationed at Fort Loyal in this town. These were, however, afterwards 
withdrawn on the subversion of the authority of Andross, and a system far less 
efficient was pursued. In the spring and summer of 1689, the Fort was nearly 



PORTLAND, 433 

abandoned by government, and was afterwards ahnost wholly sustained from the 
resouices of individuals. In the autunm of that year, the authorities were aroused 
from their lethargy by the pressing calls of the inhabitants for protection, and sent a 
force to succor the eastern towns. Major Benjamin Church, of Plymouth Colony, 
the celebrated Indian warrior, was intrusted with the command of an expedition to 
the eastward, and most fortunately arrived in Falmouth almost simultaneously with 
a large body of French and Indians about seven hundred strong, who had landed 
on Peak's Island. Apprehending an immediate attack upon the town, he concerted 
at once with the inhabitants, measures of defence. He landed his troops as quietly 
as possible in the evening, and early the next morning, an hour before day break, 
he marched them, accompanied by a number of the inhabitants, " to a thick place 
of brush about half a mile from the town." 

Meanwhile the enemy had not been idle; in the night they had moved to the 
upper part of the Neck, and by the dawn of day, Sept. 21, made then- appearance 
upon the farm of Anthony Brackett, whose house stood near where Mr. Deermg'a 
now stands, where the roads meet. The alarm was immediately given by 
Brackett's sons, and Capt. Hall's company, which was in advance, hastened to the 
spot. The enemy was in Brackett's orchard, and here the action commenced, and 
was principally fought. Church, on hearing the alarm, proceeded with a remforce- 
ment and a supply of ammunition, which was transported across Back Cove Creek, 
by one of tlie friendly Indians. Capt. Hall was sustained by the remainder of the 
English forces, who were stationed on this side of the creek. After a hot contest. 
Major Church communicated to Capt. Hall his design to attack the enemy in the 
rear, and for this purpose he moved up the creek; which the enemy perceiving, 
immediately retreated, and though pursued, they escaped to the forests ; and, 
finding their purposes frustrated, and the country so well guarded, they gave no 
further trouble that season. 

The principal facts we derive from Church's account of the expedition, whose 
arrival was so timely that the people must otherwise have been utterly cut off. He 
closes his interesting account as follows : — " Capt. Hall and his men being first 
engaged, did great service, and suffered the greatest loss in his men. But Capt. 
Southworth with his company, and Capt. Numposh with the Seconit Indians, and 
the most of the men belonging to the town, all coming suddenly to his relief, 
prevented him and his whole company from being cut off. By this time the day 
was fiir spent, and marching into town about sunset, carrying in all their wounded 
and dead men, being all sensible of God's goodness to them in giving them the 
victory, and causing the enemy to fly with shame, who never gave one shout at 
drawing off." 

The number killed in the engagement was eleven, and wounded ten, of whom, 
Mr. Freeze, Mr. Bramhall and one friendly Indian, died of their wounds. * Tiie 

* The following from the Secretary of the Stale's ollice in Mass., gives further interesting 
particulars: September, 21, 1689; a list of the men that was slain in a fite at Falmouth, and 
also how many was wounded in said fite ; of Capt. Hall's soldiers, 6 slain : Thomas Burton, 
Edward Ebens, Thomas Thaxier,^Thomas Berry, John Mason, David Homes; o< Capt. 

55 



434 PORTLAND, 

engagement continued about six hours before the retreat, and was fought west of 
tlie point where Deering's bridge now lands upon it. Hall forded the creek at that 
place ; the principal part of the Neck was covered with trees and bushes, as were 
also the hills at each extremity; some of which have been standing since my 
remembrance. And let it be said to the praise of our Annalist, the venerable Dr. 
Deane,that in order to prevent the remains of the primitive forest from being swept 
away by the avarice of man, he purchased all the standing trees on Munjoy's hill, 
and they were thus permitted to ornament and crown the hill during his life. Soon 
after his death, to our great regret, they fell a prey to the woodman's axe; the lines 
of the poet, "Woodman, spare that tree !" found no response in the bosom of the 
modern vandal, probably a trespasser. 

After this signal deliverance from a cruel foe, the inhabitants were desirous of 
drawing off" to places of safety : but Church persuaded many of them to remain, 
giving them assurance that he would do all in his power to return to them again the 
following spring with a protecting force. Then leaving a garrison of fifteen soldiers 
with a commander and gunner in the Fort, and sixty soldiers to be quartered in the 
town, he took his departure with the lively gratitude, but deep regret of the inhab- 
itants, whom he had preserved. 

The people passed a quiet but anxious winter; garrisons were kept in Fort Loyal, 
at Lawrence's stone house on the hill, at George Ingersol's, foot of Exchange street, 
and in one other part of the Neck, which I am not able to designate. The enemy 
did not long remain idle ; in February, they renewed their depredations, and 
suddenly poured down a force of French and Indians upon Schenectady, in New 
York, in which they killed sixty persons. On the 18th of March, another party 
destroyed the village at Salmon Falls, in this State, " with fire and sword." Capt. 
Willard, of Salem, who was in command at Falmouth, was ordered in February to 
scour the woods, and pursue the enemy to head quarters ; this measure withdrew 
from Falmouth the regular troops and left the defence of the place almost entirely 
to the inhabitants, which the subtle enemy were not long in finding out. In May a 
junction was formed between a portion of their forces which had destroyed Sche- 
nectady, and the eastern Indians, with a view to attack the several positions in this 
neighborhood; they were soon after discovered in Casco Bay, and Robert Greason, 

Davis' company, 2— Giles Row, Andrew Alger, belonging to the fort of the town; an Indian, a 
negro of Col. Tyng's, Capt. Brackett carried away or slain, 11 in all. Wounded, 6 friend 
Indians; of Capt. Davis' company, James Freeze, Mr. Bramhall, Tliomas Browne, Mr. Palmer, 
inhabitants; total, 21 slain and wounded." 

B. V ork in a deposition, taken in 1759, adds the following particulars: " I well remember 
that said George Bramhall was shot by the Indians, about the same time, in the fight over ou 
Capt. Bracketfs farm, and said Brackett was also killed at the same time, at his house at Back 
Cove; and said Bramhall was brought over alive after the fight, to the Neck near Fort Loyal, 
and put into Capt. Tyng's house, to best of my remembrance, and died the next day, of hi« 
wounds, and his son and other help they got, brought a number of hides from ye house and 
tan pits to ye said Neck; and I well remember said George Bramhall left three sons, Josejih, 
Geoige and Joshua, and I think one daughter, who all moved away, with their mother, to the 
westward soon alter." 



PORTLAND. ' 435 

one of our inhabitants, was taken prisoner by them. Capt. Silvanus Davis had 
command of Fort Loyal, and gave strict orders that the inhabitants should keep 
close within their garrisons, and that constant watch should be kept to prevent 
surprise. A neglect of this wise precaution precipitated the destruction of the 
town; Lieut. Clark and thirty men, being desirous to make some discoveries in 
regard to the enemy, proceeded to the top of the hill, which was probably Mun- 
joy's, and covered with woods, to which there was a lane with a fence on each 
side, and a block house, probably Lawrence's, at the end. Perceiving that the 
cattle stood staring towards the fence, as if alarmed, hesitating to pass into the 
wood, thoy had a suspicion that the enemy were concealed bchhid it. It occurred 
to them, therefore, that the best way to get rid of this difticvdty was to face it, and 
they resolved to make a sudden rush upon them, in the hope that they would be 
intimidated; they therefore ran to the fence with a loud shout. But the enemy 
who had been covetly watching their movements, were thoroughly prepared for 
them, and poured upon the assaulting party a deadly fire, which left Lieut. Clark 
and thirteen more dead upon the spot ; the remainder hastily retreated to the 
garrison house. This was attacked, and bravely defended until night, when the 
beseiged abandoned the house and sought refuge in Fort Loyal. The next morning, 
May 16, the enemy burnt the house, and laid seige to the Fort with all their force. 
The Fort was situated on a rocky bluff, which will be remembered by those who 
witnessed its demolition in 1848, to make room for the station of the Atlantic and 
St. Lawrence Railroad. Under this bluff the enemy worked, out of the reach of 
the guns of the Fort, secure too from a sally by their superior number, and the 
small force in the Fort. The seige was actively carried on five days and four 
nights; many of the English were killed and wounded, and being at last exhausted 
by continued watching and defence, they capitulated on the 2flth of May. 

Capt. Davis, who was taken prisoner and carried to Quebec, gave the govern- 
ment an account of the attack and surrender, from which I take the following 
particulars : " Myself having command of a garrison in Falmouth, for the defence 
of the same, a party of French from Canada, joined with a coTnpany of Indians, 
to the number of betwixt four and five hundred French and Indians, set upon our 
Fort. The 16th of May, 1690, about dawning, began our fight; the 20th, about 
S o'clock, afternoon, we were taken. They fought us five days and four nights, in 
which time they killed and wounded the greatest part of our men, burned all our 
houses, and at last we were forced to have a parly with them in order for a sur- 
render." ♦* We demanded if there were any French among them, and if they 
would give us quarter. They answered that they were Frenchmen, and that they 
would give us good quarter." They then required that "the Governor of tho 
French should hold up his hand and swear by the great and ever living God, that 
the several articles should be performed. All which he did solemnly swear to 
perform; but as soon as they had us in their custody, they broke their articles, 
suffered our women and children and our men, to be made captives in the hands of 
the heathen, to be cruelly^ murdered and destroyed, many of them, and especially 
our wounded men : only the French kept myself and three or four more, and 



436 POKTLANU. 

carried us overland for Canada." They were twenty-four days marching llirough 
the wilderness, and arrived at Quebec June 14th. 

He remained at Quebec four months, and was then exchanged. He adds, 
" Tlie French tliat took us, came from Canada, in February last past, designed for 
the destruction of Falmouth, by order from the Governor there, the Earl of Fron- 
tenac. The commander's name was Mons. Burniffe, his Lieut. 's name was Mons. 
Corte de March, who was at the taking of Schenectade." 

Thus a second time perished the rising settlement of Falmouth. Among the 
killed where Lieut. Clark, Thomas Cloice,Seth Brackett, son of Anthony, Thomas 
Alsop, Edward Crocker, George Bogvvell, and Joseph Ramsdell, a soldier from 
Lynn. Capt. Robert Lawrence and Anthony Brackett, Jr., were mortally wounded ; 
James Ross and Peter Morrill were among the prisoners. Ross was also wounded; 
he had his collar bone split and cut off, and suffered much from the Indians, while 
in Canada, for which he received from Mass., in 1726, a pension of £5 a year. 

Among the killed, were John Parker and his son James, who had taken refuge 
in Fort Loyal, from the ravages of the enemy on the Kennebec,* and thus run 
upon the spear they had taken so much pains to avoid. 

The war continued until 1698, when the quarrel between France and England 
having been adjusted, by the treaty of Ryswick in 1697, and the French succor 
withdrawn thereby from the Indians, without which they could not sustain hostilities 
with hope of success, they entered into articles of agreement, which were consum- 
mated by a treaty of peace, executed at Mare's point in Casco Bay, Jan. 7. 1699. 

The religious condition of the people in town during the periods of which I have 
been speaking, was not of a very high order. The first settlers were Episcopalians; 
they did not leave their own land for freedom of worship, but for hope of gain ; 
they were adventurers, who thought more of the material things of this life, than 
the spiritual ; and it was to procure these, that their utmost energies were spent. 
The first and only clergymen that we have any account of, before the jurisdiction of 
Massachusetts was extended over the territory, were Episcopalians, Richard Gibson 
and Robert Jordan. And the earnest opposition to the govenmient of Massachu- 
setts, arose principally from difference of religious opinion. 

*Johu Parker was the great, great grandfather of the late Isaac Parker, Chief Justice of 
Massachusetts, and son of John Parker, who came from Biddeford in Great Britain, to Saco, 
Maine. In 1650, the first John purchased Parker's island, in the Kennebec river, which took its 
name from him, and died in 16G1, leaving Thomas, John and JMari/. Thomas died at Parker's 
island, leaving John and Jacob, and five daughters; John, the oldest son of Thomas, moved to 
Boston, and was a shipwright. John the second son of the first John, and who was killed at 
Fort Loyal, was horn in 1634; he purchased a large tract on the Kennebec, wlwre he lived 
until driven off by the Indians- He had two sons, JDara/f/ and James, and four daughters; 
one of his daughters married Jonathan Cary. Daniel moved to Charlestown, where he died 
ill 1691, leaving a sou Isaac, and a. daughlec Ann. Isaac lived and died in Charltstown, and 
was the grandfather of the late Chief Justice. In a release from Richard Wharton to John 
Parker, of land on the Kennebec, in 1684, it is recited that Parker had been in possession of the 
land there upwards of twenty-six years, and «va? the first of the English nation that began t<^ 
inbdue the said tract.— isartc Parker's lellcr, June 12, 1832, conlainins minutes from Yori 
accords. 



VOKTLANU. 437" 

The slate of morals was also low; the continued conflict for supremacy during 
the first fifty years of the settlement, kept the people iii a constant fever of agitation; 
no claimant held jurisdiction long enough to consolidate an efficient system of laws, 
and the inhabitants declined into a laxity of manners unusual at that day on this 
side of the water. The Episcopal and high souled Gorges, was succeeded by the 
Puritan Rigby, who was followed by Massachusetts, which for a few years, exer- 
cised a divided sway ; upon them came the heirs of Gorges, sustained by the 
Commissioners of Charles 2nd, who, aided by a portion of the settlers, attempted 
to fi-own down the rigid discipline and power of the stern and persevering colony, 
which had asserted, and was determined to maintain, its authority over its newly 
acquired possessions. Nothing could be more unfavorable to order, religion, and 
the arts which follow in their train, than these party animosities, and continual 
fluctuations. The records are filled with evidence of immoralities, flowing from 
such a condition of things. 

We have no testimony, nor reason to believe, that any Church was organized in 
this town previous to 1727. The first preacher here of which we have any 
account, except the Episcopal clergymen before mentioned, was George Burroughs, 
who graduated at H. C. in 1670, and was here as a preacher, but not settled, whea 
the town was destroyed in 1676. In this catastrophe, he escaped to an island in 
the bay and wrote thence to Henry Jocelyn, of Black Point, giving an account of 
the sad tragedy. After the war, Mr. Burroughs returned again to this field of 
labor, having, during a portion of the interval, preached at Danvers on a salary of 
X60 a year. He was here the second time as early as June, 1683; how long 
before, I do not know. The town granted to him before the first war, two hundred 
acres of land, extending across the town near where High street now is; a portion 
of which was surrendered by him on the resettlement, and twenty-three acres he 
sold to Peter Bowdoin in 1688. They also gave him seven acres, near where the 
City Hall now stands, on which they built him a house. This he exchanged in 
1683, with Jolm Skillings, for a house and lot near the fort, a more central part of 
the village. 

.Previous to the overthrow of the town in 1690, Mr. Burroughs escaped from the 
destruction, but only to fall a victim to a fanaticism more wicked and fatal than the 
shafts of the Indian foe. He was tried for witchcraft, in Salem, May 8, 1692, and 
executed on the 19th of August, following. He was a man of great vigor of body 
and of unexceptionable character; and perished in the prime of life, the object of a 
delusion whose wickedness is only equalled by its stupidity and folly. He left 
several children, viz., George, Jeremiah, Rebecca, married Tolman, Hannah 
married Fox, Elizabeth married Peter Thomas, all of Boston, and Mary, a man in 
Attleborough. 

The town continued wholly unoccupied during the war, and although a few of 
the old settlers, with that unceasing yearning which ever haunts the exile, 
wandered back to their desolated homes, after the peace, yet so unsettled was the 
state of affairs with the savages, that we have no evidence that the settlement was 
i.Tenewed upon tlte Neck, until after the peace of Utrecht, in 1713. Whenever 5 



438 PORTLAND. 

war look place in Europe, in which the English and French were engaged, it 
became the precursor of agitation here; and the barbarous enemy was fatally- 
precipitated upon the English colonists, with remorseless cruelty. The French had 
a wonderful power over them, through their priests, and their own familiar inter- 
course with them, in which the English could never succeed; they looked to force, 
and authority, instead of the milder and more successful instruments of conciliation, 
gentleness, persuasion and kind offices, which the French more wisely pursued. 

This brings us to the third period of our history, in which our venerable annalists 
take up the current of the story, and we follow on, only as humble commentators 
and gleaners in the wide field. This period continues a hundred years. 

We now add Mr. Freeman's tabular statement of the condition of Portland in 
1821, the time when the first edition of his work was published. 

" The town of Portland is about three miles long, and upon an average about 
three-quarters of a mile wide. It contains within its limits (exclusive of streets, 
and what is covered with water) 2,151 acres of land, and 6 acres of marsh, and at 
present 8,581 persons. 

There are now the following public buildings in tho town, viz : a State house, an 
elegant brick Court house, a large stone Goal, a large three story brick .'\cademy, 
a large three story brick building belonging to the Bank of Portland, a like brick 
building formerly erected for an Insurance oflice, but now owned by the 
Cumberland Bank and occupied as a Bank, a Custom house, and other Offices; 
ten houses of Public Worship, viz., three for Congregationalists, one for Baptists, 
one for Episcopalians, one for Methodists, one for Union Society, one for Inde- 
pendent Methodists, one for Friends, and one for Universal ists; 5 School houses, 
700 Dwelling houses — in or adjoining which, are 61 shops, 260 other Shops, 306 
Barns, 66 Ware houses, 11 Bake houses, 6 Distill houses, 7 Tan houses, 7 
Slaughter houses, 1 Iron Works and Furnace, 94 other buildings, a Post office, 
15,583 Tons of vessels, 392,096 superficial Feet of wharves, a Library belonging 
to a number of persons associated for its support, containing about 1200 volumes, 
au Insurance office, Institution for Savings, and 27 other Institutions and Societies 
(as hereafter particularized) besides Religious Societies, 6 Engines, 7 Public 
Schools, viz., 4 Masters' Schools, 3 Mistress' do, and about 40 Private Schools." 

That the progress of the town may be seen, during the last quarter of a century, 
I have collected the following facts, which I will present in a brief compass : 

Portland was separated from Falmouth and incorporated as a distinct town in 
1786; in 1832, it received a City Charter, under which, the government consists of 
a Mayor, 7 Aldermen and 21 Common Councilmen, for the election of whom, the 
city is divided into seven wards. 

CONDITION OF PORTLAND IN 1848. 

Population, ^c. In 1830, 12,601; 1840,15, 218; 1848, 19,013, of which, 436 
were upon the islands. In 1840, the population was classed as follows :— White 
males, 6,830; white females, 7,986 : colored males, 204; colored females, 198. 

In 1847, there were 20 Clergymen, 22 Physicians;, 7 Dentists and 43 Lawyers 



mortality: FINANCESi. 43^i 

in the city; and the whole number of persons between the ages of 4 and 21 years, 

6,866. 

Portland is now the twenty-first city in the U. S. in the number of its inhabitants, 

and much higher than that, in its conmiercial character and resources, as will be 

seen hereafter. 

Number of i)a'fZ/i«5-/!o;/ses, in 1820, was 1,076; in 1843, 1,33.5; in 1848, 1,540. 
Mortality. The deaths for the year ending March 1, 1846, were 278, viz., 142 

males, 186 females. Of these, 17 were over 75 years of age, and 20 between 

60 and 75. 

In the year ending March 1, 1847, the deaths were 314, viz., males 162, females 

152 ; of these, 1 was over 100, 7 was over 80, 25 stillborn. The proportion of 

deaths to population is as 1 to 57 2-3; while in Boston it is 1 to 41 ; Providence, I 

to 41; Salem, 1 to 54; Worcester, 1 to 52 ; Lowell, 1 to 57. 

In the year ending March 1, 1849, the number of deaths was 409, viz., males 

227, females 182, of ages as follows : 8 over 80 years of age, 41 between 60 and 

80, 53 between 40 and 60, 73 between 20 and 40, 49 between 5 and 20, 186 under 

5, and 32 stillborn. This gives the proportion of deaths to the population as 1 to 

49 9-lOths, assuming the population to be 20,000, from which it cannot much vary. 

The increased mortality may be attributed to the influx of foreign population, 

drawn here by our public works. 

Financial Concerns. The value of the real and personal property in the city, 

is about i3!l 1,000, 000, which includes the public property of the city. 

The city debt is ^200,000, the interest on which, averages five and a half per 

cent. This is exclusive of the amount of debt which they have recently incurred 

for the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad Company, but for which they have 

security upon the road, the Company paying the interest. One half of the standing 

debt was incurred for building the Exchange, which has been sold (in 1849) foi 

$147,000 net, from which proceeds, the debt will be reduced. 

2'axes. The amount of taxes assessed in 1847, was $61,829, which was an 

average of 3.43 1-2 on each inhabitant. This included the sums raised for its 

proportion of State and County expenses. 

The City expenditures for the year ending April, 1848, were $58,947, 

distributed as follows : 
Support of the Poor, deducting proceeds from the farm and brick yard, $3,740,87 
Schools and School houses, ..----- 10,697,76 
Streets, side walks and bridges, ------- 15,031,55 

Watch, - . - 2,073,96 

Salaries, ------ 2,749,44 

Fire Department, --------- 4,001,69 

Interest on debt, 10,362,96 

The balance in miscellaneous items. 

The resoiorces of the City are rents of buildings, and taxes; the former amount 

to about $5,000. They also receive from the State, a portion of the Bank tax for 

the support of schools; the amount depending on the number of children returned . 

in 1847, it was $738,97, 



440 



PUBLIC PROPERTY. 



The Public property consists of vnrious lots of land in different parts of the City, 
used for Cemeteries, Public schools, Engine houses and Ward rooms; the Poor 
house and farm, containing, with appurtenant land, over 100 acres; Hay scales, 
&c. In addition to these lots and edifices, are the City Market and Hall — a large 
brick building at the junction of Middle and Congress streets, and the Exchange, a 
splendid granite structure occupying the space between Exchange and Market 
streets. This building was commenced by a private Company in 1835, who, 
finding their means inadequate to the task, sold their land and materials to the 
City, before it had arisen above the foundation ; the City completed the work 
according to the original plan, in 18.39. It is constructed of sienite, from the 
Kennebunk quarry, a beautiful and excellent stone. Its length on Exchange street 
is 136 feet, its width on Middle street 72 feet, and is three stories high. The 
principal front on Middle street, is furnished with a colonade of eight columns, the 
shaft of each of which, is a single stone beautifully fluted, and supporthig an entab- 
lature of the Ionic order, and resting on a basement or lower story which is 14 feet 
in height from the side walk to the base of the columns. The columns are 24 feet 
in height including base and capitals. The building is surmounted by a dome rising 
from the centre, of chaste and beautiful proportions, 63 feet in diameter and rising 
above the roof 25 feet, covered with copper. The height from the side walk to 
the top of the dome, is 75 feet. It contains a large hall directly under the dome, 
72 feet by 54, and rooms for the City government, and offices; and a portion of it 
is rented to the United States for the United States Courts and offices, and for the 
Post office. The basement is principally occupied by stores. 




EXCHANGE. 



EDUCATION. 441 

The cost of this building with the land to the City, was about #100,000. Its 
actual cost considerably exceeded that sum. This beautiful building was sold to 
the United States in July, 1849,for f 149,000, of wliich 2,000 was to be expended in 
repairs. 

Schools, Education and Literary Institutions. The number of schools 
supported at the public charge, in 1849, was 20; the number of pupils belonging to 
them, is 3,000, with an average attendance of 2,700 ; there are about 1,000 
children in the city who do not attend school at all — thus totally neglecting the 
valuable privileges furnished them at the public charge. They are growing up in 
the school of vice, wliich is always open and always attended. Among the public 
schools, is a High, or Classical school, where boys are prepared for College, as 
well as for mercantile and other business, in which a good education is given in 
the various branches to which attention is directed. There are also two Grammar 
schools for boys and two for girls. To these five schools, about 1000 pupils belong. 
The remainder are Primary schools, taught principally by females. A French 
teacher was employed in 1848, for the higher schools, and instruction regularly 
given in that language ; but this is now suspended. Books and stationery are 
gratuitously furnished by the city. For the accommodation of these schools, the 
city own eight fine brick buildings and six wooden buildmgs, distributed in different 
parts of the town most convenient for attendance; a fine, large brick building was 
erected on Congress street, in 1848, two stories high, on the most approved plan, 
at an expense of $11,876. , 

Beside these, there are about 30 private schools containing about 1000" scholars, 
among which is an Academy for Classical instruction to boys, and several High 
schools for young ladies, taught by gentlemen and ladies, in which is given a 
thorough rudimentary education. 

Athencum. This institution is successor to the " Library Society," which was 
established in 1765, by twenty-six gentlemen who associated together for that 
purpose. Previous to that time there was nothing in the form of a library existing 
in town. The library opened in 1766 with ninety-three volumes, of which sixty- 
two volumes were "Ancient and Modern Universal History." Rapin's History of 
England, seven volumes more, Lardner's Writers of the New Testament, three, 
London Magazine, nine, &c. A portion of the Universal History was purchased 
by subscription, to which Benjamin Titcomb gave a guinea, and other members a 
silver dollar each. Not much addition w^as made, until after the revolution, 
during which the small collection was scattered, and a number of the books lost. 
In 1780, a new attempt was made to resuscitate it, and the fragments were 
reunited. But it was not until the peace of '83, that any successful movement 
was made to give it vitality. In May, 1784, twenty-six new members were admitted, 
who were required to pay two dollars each, in money or books. Others 
were subsequently admitted on the same conditions. On the third of April, 1786, 
the library was valued at £25: the value was diminished by the number of broken 
sets of works which it contained. In 1794, the books were again appraised, and 
valued at £64 3s, 8d., and the price of admission was raised to 42s. The commit- 
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442 ATHENEUM, 

tee were this year instructed to purchase Sullivan's History of Maine, Ilulchinson's 
History of Massachusetts, Belknap's Biography, Ramsay's American Revolution, 
and Carolina, and the History of the County of Worcester. These are all 
American publications, and on American subjects. In 1798, they procured an act 
of incorporation. The Society was very much of a social character; quarterly 
meetings of members were held in the evening, which were not exclusively 
confined to literary recreation: they were often " noctes ambrosianae." It 
was the custom of that day, to administer to both natures of man, and not to 
neglect the body while providing food for the mind. We read in the records, the 
vote, " that a supper be prepared at the next annual meeting, and a cold collation 
at the quarterly meetings, at the expense of the Society.'' This was sure to 
draw a full attendance of the members, although it might fail to have a beneficial 
effect on the increase of the library. We see the contrast in the annua! meetiugs 
of the Atheneum at the present day, where little is served up but the dry details of 
the yearly operations, with little wit and no wine; it is hideed a cold collation. 

The library went on slowly, and gradually increasing until 1825, when its 
number of volumes was 1C40, and its pr(5prietors 82; and the whole annual expense 
$331. At this period, the design was formed for enlarging the institution, and 
giving it a more elevated and diffusive character, better suited to the wants of the 
age, and spirit of the times. The present Atheneum grew out of these suggestions; 
it was incorporated in March, 1826, purchased the property of the old library, and 
the former Society was dissolved, most of the members becoming proprietor* of 
the new institution. One hundred and thirty-three persons became proprietors in 
the Atheneum, at iJlOO a share, of which §60 only were paid, the principal part 
of which was invested in Bank Stock, as a fund toward the support of the estab- 
lishment ; the books go into circulation to all the members who pay a tax of $5 a 
year, and to others who pay $10. The first officers of the Atheneum were, Wm. P, 
Preble, President; Wm. Willis, Secretary and Treasurer; Levi Cutter, Ichabod 
Nichols, Albion K. Parris, Henry Smith and Ashur Ware, Directors. A Com- 
mercial and Literary Reading Room was connected, in the first instance, with the 
institution, but this was found to be too expensive and was dispensed with. The 
library, which has been continually increasing to the present time, is now conve- 
niently arranged, in the large room over the Canal Bank, and contains 5750 volumes 
of the literature of the days through which it has lived, embracing the best 
periodical publications and standard works. For its size, there are few libraries 
more valuable. A new impulse has been given to it the present year; upwards of 
forty new shares have been taken up, at f40 each. The institution is an honor to 
the city, and should receive a liberal regard from every citizen, who is able to 
contribute to this unexceptionable public improvement, Charles S. Davies is now 
President, and Phineas Barnes Secretary and Treasurer. 

The city may boast of another valuable mstitution, in the Society of J\''atural 
History, which was organized in 1843. It possesses a very valuable collection of 
shells, purchased of Dr. Mighells, and collected and arranged by him with great 
fost, rare and learning, and numbering from three to four thousand species; they 



RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. 443 

have also numerous specimens of Mineralogy and Zoology, and a rich and beautiful 
collection in Ornithology, commenced by Dr. Mitchell, and subsequently increased 
from other sources. The Cabinet is tastefully arranged, in a room in the Exchange, 
gratuitously furnished by the city. It must be confessed however, that the zeal for 
pursuits of this nature, is not very keen in this city, and this institution, really 
beautiful and valuable, languishes for the want of that aid and uiterest, without 
which no establishment can be properly sustained. The present number of members 
is about 200, who paid an admission fee of $5; other funds were raised by sub- 
scription. 

JVewspapers, There are fifteen Newspapers published in Portland, of which 
three are published daily, two tri-weekly, ten weekly; nine are political, three 
religious, one literary, one temperance, and one too miscellaneous to be arranged 
wnder any head. 

There is a Stereotyping establishment in full operation, and two or three large 
publishing offices of Books, one of which under the charge of Sanborn & Carter, by 
far the most extensive of any in the State. 

Churches. The number of Churches in the city is IS, capable of accommo- 
dating 13,000 persons, and belong to nine different denominations of Christians; 
they are as follows, viz : — Three Congregationalists, Calvinistic ; two Congrega- 
tionalists, Unitarian ; one Christian, Unitarian ; two Baptist, Calvmistic ; two 
Methodist ; one Freewill Baptist ; one Episcopalian ; one Swedenborgian ; one 
Universalist; one Quaker; one Roman Catholic; one Abyssinian, Calvinistic; one 
Seaman's Chapel. One of these churches is built of granite, seven of brick and 
the remainder of wood. Beside these, there is regular preaching to the poor, by 
the Rev. Mr. Hadley, the minister at large, inducted into his office in May, 1849. 
For a more particular description of these Societies, I take Mr. Freeman's 
account so far as he goes, and supply the deficiency. 

First Parish. The Rev. Thomas Smith was the first settled minister m this 
town. He was ordained March 8, 1727, and was the only minister in the town 
until Nov. 10, 1734, when the Rev. Mr. Allen was installed at Cape Elizabeth, 
which was till then a part of Mr. Smith's Parish. " There was a block house 
held by some few families at Purpoodoc point, and a garrison and a few families at 
Spurwink; at those places he used alternately to minister to the people." There 
was no other minister in the town until other parishes were set off. In the first 
parish, the Rev. Samuel Deane was settled as a mniister with Mr. Smith, Oct. 17, 
1764. They continued together until the death of Mr. Smith, May 23, 1795. Mr. 
Deane then became sole pastor, and remained so until the settlement of the Rev, 
Dr. Nichols, June 7, 1809. 

Dr. Deane died Nov. 12, 1814, and the whole pastoral charge devolved on Dr. 
Nichols, who still remains sole pastor, being the third from its formatior., and there 
having been no vacancy. 

Second Parish. This Society was incorporated March 17, 1788. The Rev 
Mr. Kellogg was the first Pastor. He was ordained Oct. 1, 1788. The Rev. Mr. 
Payson was ordained as a colleague with him, Dec. 16, 1807. A dissolution of 



444 RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. 

this connection took place in December, 1811 ; in consequence of which, the 
gentleman last mentioned became the sole pastor. 

He died Oct. 22, 1827, and was succeeded by Rev. Bennett Tyler, President of 
Dartmouth College, who was installed in September, 1828. He continued their 
Pastor imtil 1834, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Joseph Vail, of Brimfield, 
Massachusetts, who was installed the same year. In October, 1837, Mr. Vail was 
dismissed at his own request, on account of his health, and returned to his former 
charge in Brimfield. In 1838, the Rev. Jonathan B. Condit, of New Jersey, was 
settled in the place of Mr. Vail; Mr. Condit's health also becomuig impaired, he 
made a voyage to Europe in 1843, to recruit his strength, the Parish liberally 
continuing his salary and supplying the pulpit during his absence. In 1845, Mr. 
Condit asked, and received although reluctantly from the parish, a dismission, on 
account of his wife's health, which was seriously affected by the climate. In 1846, 
Dr. John S. Carruthers, of Montreal, the present pastor, was installed in the sacred 
office. Dr. Tyler and Mr. Vail, were graduates of Yale, the former in 1804, the 
latter in 1811; Mr. Condit, of Princeton, and Dr. Carruthers was born and 
educated in Scotland. Of the six ministers who have been settled over this 
Society, four are now living. 

The Third Congregational Society was established in 1825, by a portion of the 
2nd Church, who purchased the Meeting-house of the Chapel Society, on Congress 
street, which was then dissolved, and the same year settled the Rev. Charles 
Jenkins, who officiated to the people to their great acceptance until his sudden 
death, Dec. 29, 1831. He graduated at Williamstown College in 1813, and was 
43 years old at the thne of his death; he left a wife and three children. He was 
succeeded by Rev. Wm. T. Dvvight, the present pastor, who was ordained June 6, 
1832. He is son of President Dvviglit, of Yale College; graduated at that institu- 
tion in 1813, was awhile a tutor there, and then practised law in Philadelphia. 
But finding this profession not congenial to his disposition and feelings, he abandoned 
it for the ministry, in which field he has been an able and successful laborer. 

High street Church. In ISSO, the Second Church found it necessary to 

establish a new colony, as well on account of then" increasing numbers as to 

accommodate those members who resided in the upper part of the town. For this 

purpose, the High Street Congregational Church was formed, which erected the 

commodious house now occupied by them, in 1831. They were incorporated Feb. 

11, of that year, and in the following September, the Church was constituted of 27 

males and 37 females set off from the second and third Churches. The house was 

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dedicated in January, 1832, and August 8, 1832, the Rev. George C. Beckwith, of 

Andover, was installed their pastor. He was dismissed in 1835, and was 

succeeded by Rev. John W. Chickeriug, of Bolton, Mass., who was installed in 

April, of the same year, and is now the pastor. He has a large and increasing 

congregation, and his services are very acceptable. Mr. Chickering graduated at 

Middlebury College, Vt., in 1S26. 

Park Street Church. This, the fifth and last of the Congregational Churches, 

Tvas formed in 1S35. In March, of that year, certain persons comiecled wilh the 



RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. 445 

1st Parish purchased the brick Church on the corner of Spring and Park streets, 
which liad been erected in 1828, by the 2ad Metliodist Society, and the same year 
a Society was established for worship there, and incorporated under the name of 
the " Second Unitarian Society in Portland." The same year, the Rev. Jason 
Whitman, who had previously been settled in Saco, and was then General Agent 
of the American Unitarian Association, was installed as their Pastor. He continued 
to minister to them ten years, when his term expiring, the pastoral relation was 
dissolved, and he was soon after settled over the ancient Society in Lexington, 
Mass. He died on a visit to Portland, Jan. 25, 1848, aged 49. He was a 
graduate of H. C. m the class of 1825, and was an active, zealous and faithful 
minister of the gospel. He was succeeded by llufus P. Cutler, the present Pastor, 
who was ordained in 1846. 

Episcopal Church. This society was formed on the 4th of November, 1763, 
by the written agreement of 41 persons, to procure a lot of land, and build "a 
meeting-house for divine service." On the 23d of July, 1764, an increased 
number expi'essed in writing, under their hands, their desire " that the worship to 
be carried on in said house should be agreeable to the laws of Great Britain," and 
on the 4th of September following, invited the Rev. John Wiswell " to accept of 
the pastoral charge over them," and desired " that he would apply to the Lord 
Bishop, for ordination." He accepted their invitation, complied with their desire, 
and became their minister accordingly. He continued such until 1775, when he 
left them, and when the house which they had built, was consumed in the confla- 
gration of the town by Capt. Mowat. Thus was the society at that time, in respect 
to assembling for public worship, broken up, and continued in a dispersed state, 
until 1785, when Mr. Parker read prayers for them, in a hired room, about two 
years. After him, viz: in July, 1787, they agreed to employ Mr. Thomas Oxnard 
in the service, in the (then new) school house, which they had hired for the 
purpose. He continued in it until March, 1792. Mr. Joseph Hooper was next 
employed for about a year. After him there were no stated performances until 
1797, when the Rev. Joseph Warren was employed, and continued until 1800. 
In 1801, the society engaged the Rev. Timothy Hilliard, who otficiated until 1809. 
From this time there were only occasional supplies, until June, 1817, when the 
Rev. Mr. Olney was engaged in the service of the society, and continued about 
three months. He was followed in September, 1818, by the Rev. Mr. Tenbroeck, 
who was instituted Rector, m 1818, and the first who held that office, in this 
Church. His connection was dissolved in 1831. When he was instituted, the 
number of his Church was only twelve ; at the close of his labors they were more 
than doubled. He died in Danvers iu 1848. He was succeeded by George W. 
Chapman in 1833, who continued to discharge the duties of Rector until the sum- 
mer of 1835. On the 8th of November of that year, the Rev. Alexander H. 
Vinton took charge of the Parish under a temporary arrangement, and left it soon 
after Easter, 1836, to minister to Grace Church, Providence, R. L He is now 
settled in Boston. After the 7th of April, 1836, the Rev. Thomas M. Clark, Jr., 
■efSciatedfor three months, when he accepted a call to Grace Church, Boston, and 



446 QUAKERS. 

was succeeded by the Rev. John N. French, who entered upon his duties in Sept., 
1836, and continued tiie Rector until December, 1839, when he resigned, and is 
now settled at Washington, D, C. 

It was during Mr. French's ministry, viz: in 1839, that St. Siephen''s Parish 
was established, to take tlie place of St. Paul's, which had become somewhat 
embarrassed in its affairs. It was thought best to sell the property of the parish, 
for which an act of the Legislature was obtained in 1840, pay off all the debts, 
and form a new society, or rather recast the old. This was accordingly done, and 
St. Stephen's Parish was organized in 1839; in 1840, it purchased the property of 
St. Paul's, and under its new charter and title has been going prosperously on. Jan. 
15, 1840, the Rev. James Pratt entered upon the duty of Rector of St. Stephen's, 
and has ever since ministered to tham, in a very acceptable manner. The last 
meeting of Old St. Paul's, was held in October, 1841, when it ceased to exist. 
'l"he new Parish owns and occupies the church of the former society. 

Quakers. The following notice we take from Mr. Freeman's extracts. The 
brick Meeting house occupied by the Society, was commenced m 1795. 

" It may not be amiss to observe, as to the Society of this denomination, that it 
originated in England, A. D. 1644, having for its head George Fox, born at 
Drayton, in July, 1624. 

In about seven years, the preachers of their principles increased in number to 
such a degree, that no less than sixty ministers were raised up in Great Britain, 
and before the close of that century, were spread in most of the European king- 
doms and in America. Adherents to them first came to New England in 1656. 
Here, as well as in England, they met with cruel persecutions which it would be 
foreign to my design to set forth. 

Before the year 1696, they held meetings as other Christians, for worship, on 
the first day of the week ; also at other times as occasions required. At an 
annual meeting that year, it was recommended to Friends living at a distance, to 
hold meetings m their families; and for the regular administration of discipline and 
other helps, they established in their Society four other kinds of meetings, viz : 
Preparative, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly meetings. In these, worship and 
business were connected. 

The authority of the first was only to judge of the propriety of carrying the 
matters before it to the higher meetings, at which, deputies consisting of persons 
of both sexes, are appointed to remove it to the next in order, and there join in 
the ti-ansaction of any other business tiiat may regularly come before them. The 
first meeting in the State of Mame was held in the upper part of York, in 
December, 1662, by three women, who had been prosecuted and whipped at 
Dover, in N. H., viz : Anna Coleman, Mary Tomkins and Alice Ambrose. 

Soon after, another was held at Berwick; but no account of any other meeting 
can be found for more than sixty years, when in October, 1730, one was held iiy a 
few families found in Kittery. 

In 1743 a meeting for worship was set up in Falmouth, and in 1750 one was 
regularly established in Berwick. 



BAPTISTS. 417 

The next was established in Windham, jn 1779. After this, meetings werp 
multiplied in dilTerent parts of the State, when, in 1790, the present Societ_y in 
Portland was established. It is unnecessary to enumerate the many meetings that 
have been established since. I will only add, that the most general awakening, or, 
in the language of the Society, " the most general convincement, that has ever 
taken place in Maine, happened during the Revolutionary War, principally through 
the instrumentality of David Sands, of Cornwall, in the State of New York, an 
eminent minister of this Society." 

First Baptist Society. This Society was incorporated February 12, 1820. By an 
act, passed June, 1820, it is provided that any persons belonging to the town of 
Portland, desirous to become members of this Society, by giving notice thereof in 
writing, to the clerk of the Parish, or Society they intend to leave, seven days at 
least before the annual meeting thereof, and being accepted by said First Baptist 
Society, shall from and after such acceptance, become members of the same; and 
any person may cease to become a member of said Society, by giving notice in 
writing to the clerk of the same, in manner aforesaid: 

Provided, That in both cases such persons shall be holden to pay all taxes 
lawfully assessed on their polls or estates, at the time of their joming or leaving 
said Society. 

By the same act, all the powers and privileges given to other religious societies, 
and proprietors of Meeting houses in Portland, by an act passed February 12, 1809, 
are extended to this Society, and to the proprietors of the Meeting house by them 
occupied. 

"The First Baptist Church in this town, was constituted July 24, 1801. The 
number of members at that time was ten; one of this number was Mr. Benjamin 
Titcomb, who was requested to take charge of them as their pastor, the 28th of 
September following. In 1803, the first Baptist Meeting house in Portland waa 
erected by the Baptist Society. In 1804, Mr. Titcomb was dismissed to the Baptist 
Church in Brunswick. His successor] was the Rev. Josiah Convers, ordained 
October 21, 1807. At his request, he was dismissed from the pastoral office, 
April 30, 1810. 

After this, the Rev. Caleb Blood was requested by the church to take the pastoral 
care. With this request he complied, and commenced his labors in June of the 
same year. In 1811, a new and capacious house of worship was erected. Mr. 
Blood died March 6, 1814. 

The next pastor was the Rev. Thomas B. Ripley, ordained July 24, 1816. 
During Mr. Ripley's ministry of 12 years, 219 persons were added to the church.} 
his connection with the society, terminated in March, 1828, on account of an 
unhappy disagreement, which induced him to resign his charge. He was succeeded 
by the Rev. Ebenezer Tliresher, jr. of Providence, R. I., who was ordained Dec. 
17, 1828. He continued in office but fifteen months, when his connection was 
dissolved by mutual consent. On the 3rd of November, 1830, the Rev. George 
Leonard of Salem, was installed; his services, which were peculiarly accepta- 
ble to his people, were suddenly closed by his death, which took place in 



448 CHRISTIAN?. 

Worcester, Mass., August 12, 1»31. In September, 1832, the Rev. John S. 
Meginnis, a native of Pittsburg, Penn. was ordained. Up to October 28, 1830, 
the whole number of persons admitted to the clnnxh was 389, of whom 230 then 
remained. In 1837, Mr. Meginnis retired from the pastoral charge, and was 
succeeded by the Rev. i. T. Champlin, who was ordained May 5, 1838. It was 
during the ministry of Mr. Meginnis that a separation took place, and the Second 
Baptist Society was formed. Mr. Champlin was obliged to dissolve his connection 
with the Society, on account of his health, and left them in July, 1841. He is now 
professor in Waterville College. After about 14 months intermission, viz: in Oct. 
1842, the Rev. Luther F. Beecher, of Connecticut, but who had been preaching at 
Trenton, in New Jersey, was installed. In 1849, he was invited to Albany, and 
preached his farewell sermon on the 7th of June of that year. During his ministry, 
viz: in 1347, the Meeting house was re-modeled, and made more beautiful and 
convenient. No successor has yet been selected. 

Second Baptist Society. This Society was formed by a secession from the 
first Baptist Society in 1836. They purchased the Theatre, on Free street, the 
same year, and altered it to a convenient Church for their accommodation. It was 
dedicated August 11, 1836. On the first of January, 1837, the Rev. Thomas O. 
Lincoln, of Boston, was ordained as their Pastor, and continued in the ministry 
over them until October 25, 1841, when he received a dismission, and was after- 
wards settled in Philadelphia . In February, 1842, Rev. L. Colby was settled, and 
remained until June, 1844, when he was dismissed; and in November of the same 
year, their present Pastor, the Rev. J. S. Eaton, was received to the pastoral office. 
The Society is in a prosperous condition. 

Christian Societies. A society was established here in '1810, which has borne 
the several names of Christians, Freewill Baptists, and the Union society. Twelve 
persons on the 11th of January united themselves together and mutually agreed to 
drop all party names and to resume the ancient name of Christians, by which the 
disciples of Jesus were known in the times of the Apostles. They adopted the most 
liberal principles, admitting to their communion professed Christians of all denom- 
inations. Having no formulary or creed, and under no ecclesiastical government, 
they take the scriptures for their sole rule of faith. Many of this society here and 
in other places liaving separated themselves from Calvinistic Baptist Societies, and 
given to their members the election of baptism by sprinkling or immersion, they 
have often been called Freewill Baptists. The society here first united under the 
preaching of Elias Smith, who was formerly a Calvinistic Baptist preacher, and 
who had acquired some celebrity as an itinerant preacher. His people did not 
embrace all the tenets of that singular man, but felt themselves at liberty to 
receive what they approved, and to reject what they believed to be error. He 
continued with them about a year, when he removed to Philadelphia. 

Elder Samuel Rand was soon after invited to take the pastoral care of the 
Church and congregation ; under his judicious and liberal administration the Society 
increased and flourished for many years. After the Methodists moved into their 
new house, this Society occupied the old Episcopal Church until 1817, when they 



CHRISTIANS. 449 

purchased the old Court House, which they moved to Court street, and made of it 
a neat and convenient iioiise of worship. In 1827 their society had increased so 
much that they required more spacious accommodations, and in that year they 
erected the large and convenient house, with a tall and graceful spire, now occupied 
by them, in Casco street. A hell was procured by a general subscription, and the 
town placed a clock in the tower. The house was dedicated October IS, 1827. 
The Society was now highly flourishing, and gave promise of increasing numbers 
and usefulness. But unfortunately, in 1829, a division took place, which produced 
a separation of part of the Parish and the formation of a new Society. The 
seceders erected in 1830 a neat meeting-house in Temple street, called the 
" Christian Chapel," and settled Elder Shaw over them, who continued to be their 
minister until 1833, when he was succeeded by Elder Tobey. 

JMr. Rand remained with the Society in Casco street until his death, which took 
place October 10, 1839. The Rev. Charles Morgridge was liis successor, in 1831. 
Mr. Morgridge retired in 1833, and has since preached in New Bedford and Fall 
River, to large Societies. lie has recently changed his religious sentiments, and 
taken charge of an Orthodox Society, in Essex county, Mass. He was succeeded 
by the Rev. Wm. Coe, who continued two years, and was followed by the Rev. 
L. D. Fleming, in 1837, who officiated until March, 1841 : Rev. David Millard 
supplied the pulpit from March to September of that year, and Rev. Edward B. 
Rollins succeeded, and continued until May 30, 1842. During the summer, the 
house was closed, and in November was sold to a new Society, which took the 
name of the " 1st Freewill Baptist Society," without, however, making any 
change in religious sentiments. On the 5th of December, 1842, Rev. A. K. 
Moulton commenced preaching to the new Society, and continued until September 
22, 1847. On the first of August, 1848, the Rev. Benjamin D. Peck, the present 
Pastor, commenced his labors. 

In the " Christian Chapel," Elder Tobey was succeeded in 1835, by Rev. 
Samuel E. Brown, who labored with them successfully until 1847. After him, the 
Rev. Mr. Guilford preached two years, when Elder Brown returned and resumed 
his labors. In the winter of 1848, the Chapel was seriously injured by fire, which 
deprived them of its use for several months. 

Methodists. The first Methodist sermon ever preached in Maine, was at Saco, 
Sept. 10, 1793, by Elder Jesse Lee, of Virginia. He had been principally instru- 
mental in forming the societies of this order in the New England States, which he 
commenced in Connecticut in 1789. At a conference held m Lynn in 1793, this 
zealous disciple of Wesley was appointed to travel through Maine. In a tour of 
several months in this State, he went as far east as Castine, and preached almost 
every day to such collections of people as he could draw together. A cnxuit was 
immediately formed on the Kennebec, called "Readfield Circuit," and a 
preacher sent to them. The Portland Circuit, established in 1794, was the next, 
and in 1795 a class was formed in this town, and in December of the same year 
the first Quarterly meeting held in the State assembled at Poland. Elder Wager 
was appointed the travelling preacher in this circuit. On Elder Lee's first visit 
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450 METHODISTS, UNIVERSaUSTS. 

liere he preached several limes in tlie 2nd Congregational Meetinghouse; subse- 
quently he preached in the Court-house and sometimes in a private house in Essex 
street. The first Society was organized by Elder Wager in 1795, and consisted of 
six persons. They struggled along through many difficulties and with a slow 
progress for nine years, at the end of which time the number of members had 
increased to but eleven. 

In 1804, however, their prospects began to brighten; Major Daniel Ilsley 
purchased and presented to the Society the house which had been previously 
occupied by the Episcopalians, which was removed to Federal street, and soon 
filled by a respectable congregation. This was the first house of worship which the 
Society had owned. The Rev. Joshua Taylor now became the stationed preacher, 
and the church which, at the commencement of Mr. Taylor's ministry, consisted of 
but eleven, increased in two years to sixty-four. In 1808, the society having 
become so numerous as to require larger accommodations than the old house 
aftbr'ied, made arrangements for the erection of a more spacious one. Trustees 
were chosen to superintend the concerns of the society according to the discipline 
of that order, and a year or two after, the house now used by the society in 
Chestnut street was erected, and on the 17lh of February, 1811, was dedicated by 
Rev. E. Kelby. The society kept on steadily increasing; in February, 1821, they 
became incorporated. Twice the house in Chestnut street was enlarged, and at 
length it became necessary to furnish still more room, when the society with great 
spirit and unanimity erected the neat and handsome brick church on the corner of 
Pleasant and Ann streets, in 1828. 

In 1835, the members of the 2nd society not being able to sustain their public 
worship, concluded to amalgamate with the parent society ; they therefore sold 
their house to the 2nd Unitarian Society and returned to the old hive. Still many 
who lived at the upper part of the city were dissatisfied with this course, and were 
continually desirous of having a place of worship at the western end of the town. 
Their wishes were at length gratified, and in 1846, they erected a neat church ou 
Pine street, over which Elder Gershom Cox presided two years, and was succeeded 
by the present pastor, Mr. Abbott. The old Society at Chestnut street pursues its 
uniform, peaceful and successful career, embracing a very large and respectable 
congregation, who enforce the doctrines of love, unity and peace, so forcibly 
preached and illustrated by the great foimders of their sect, which has now become 
one of the most numerous of Christian communions. The Rev. Mr. Allen, of 
Norridgewock, has just retired from the charge, and Rev. Jlr. McDouald is their 
present Pastor. 

Uaiversalist Society. The Society of Uuiversalists was established and 
incorporated tinder the act concerning Parishes, in 1821. The same year, they 
erected their house of worship on the corner of Pearl and Congress streets; it is 
constructed of wood, one story high, with long windows and without side gblleries, 
is 75 feet m length and 44 in width. It cost !8;6,000, and was dedicated August 
16, 1821. A bell was furnished for the tower, by subscription, weighing 1236 
pounds. 



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In August, 1821, the Rev. Russell Streeter took the pastoral charge of the 

Society, and continued to discharge its duties until May, 1827, when at his request 
he received a dismission. In July following, he was succeeded by the Rev. 
John Bisbe. The Society was in a flourishing condition under the preaching of 
Mr. Bisbe, who was a talented and popular minister; but they were doomed to a 
severe disappointment by the sudden death of their pastor, in the midst of his 
duties and his days, March 8, 1829, After this, until the summer of 1831, the 
pulpit was principally supplied by Rev. Wm. I. Reese, but the health of his family 
not permitting him to remain, he was dismissed at his own request, and the Rev. 
Menzies Rayner was invited to supply his place. He came from Hartford, Conn., 
and took charge of the Society in September, 1831. 

Mr. Rayner's connection was dissolved in 1835; he was succeeded by the Rev. 
D. D. Smith, son of Elias Smith, who continued with them three years, when, in 
1838, Rev. Charles C. Burr was installed and remained until 1842, when the Rev. 
L. L. Sadler was settled over the Society. He continued to 1847, when on his 
retirement, the Rev. Russell Streeter returned to his former charge, and is now the 
Pastor. 

Swede nborgian, or JSTew Jerusalem Church. A small Society of Sweden- 
borgians has been established in town several years. In the winter of 1824 — 25, Dr. 
Timothy Little having met with the writings of the founder of this sect, became 
deeply interested in them, and was convinced of their genuineness and truth. He 
led some others to their perusal, and in the following year, he, with three others, 
held regular meetings on Sabbath evenings to read and converse upon the doctrines 
of the New Church. Others successively attended the meetings, until the number 
had sufficiently increased to induce them to hold their services in public, which 
commenced in June, 1829. On Sunday, Aug. 21, 1830, twelve persons received 
baptism, and were constituted a Society in the New Jerusalem Church. Since that 
time, the number of the professors has been slowly increasing, and more attend upon 
the public services than at any former period. Their meetings were first held in the 
vestry of the Methodist Church m Cumberland street, and were conducted by prayer, 
readuig selections from the Bible and the works of Swedenborg; Dr. Little, 
who was the leader of the service, occasionally preached a discoursj written by 
himself. They had occasional visits from regular preachers of their order, who 
officiated to the society. 

Their meetings were held afterwards in the U. S. Court room, and were conducted 
by Dr. Little, as before, who officiated, and occasionally read a discourse written by 
himself. On the 21st of August, 1832, a Society was formed consisting of sLs male 
members, viz., Dr. Little, Sam'l Colman, Oliver Gerrish, Dr. Rea, Eben'r Mason and 
Wm. Hunnewell, Jr., and seven females, under the name of the Society of the New 
Jerusalem, and were assisted in their organization by the Rev. Thomas Worcester, 
and other delegates from the Boston Society. In 1837, the Society erected a neat 
wooden Church on Congress street, which was dedicated Aug. 26, and in 
November following, the Rev. Henry Worcester was invited to preach, and 
continued in the ministry with them until his lamented death, May 24, 184L Ha 



452 KOMAN CATHOLICS. 

was Bucceeded by the Rev. James Scott, who preached about three years, and was 
followed successively by Rev. Mr. Colborn for three months, and the Rev. Thomas 
I). Studevant, until October, 1847; since that time there has been no regular 
preaching, Dr. Little officiatuig as in the beginning. The Church now consists of 
forty-seven members. 

Roman Catholics. The number of immigrants, especially of the Irish nation, 
having become considerably numerous in town, they felt a desire of enjoying in this, 
their adopted country, the religious consolations of their favorite Church. As soon 
as their situation and wishes were made known to the Rev. Mr. Cheverus, the late 
amiable and accomplished Bishop of Boston, he came here in 1822 and established 
a Society under the patronage of the Roman See. The Society was small and 
poor; they held their meetings until 1828 in a room in Hay market row, and were 
visited every year by Bishop Cheverus, until his return to France. 

A small brick Church was erected in State street, in 1828, under the direction of 
the Society, by subscriptions collected in Boston and other places, which were 
liberally aided by the protestants of this town. About $1400 were expended upon 
it, but it was not completed for some years, the poverty of the Society retarding 
the work. 

Before Mr. French came here, in September, 1827, they were occasionally visited 
by the Rev. Dennis Ryan, of Whitefield, in the county of Lincoln. The Rev. 
Benedict Fenwick, the former Bishop of Boston, made three visits to this part of 
his charge, one in 1827, and two in 1830; in the last, he remained four weeks, 
preaching four Sabbaths, and administering confirmation and other ordinances. 
The society at present consists of about a thousand persons, most of whom are 
natives of Ireland, or their descendants. 

The Church has recently been enlarged to accommodate the increasing number of 
worshippers, whom the tide of emigration has set upon our shore. It is called the 
Church of St. Dominic, and belongs to the Episcopal See of Boston. They are 
occasionally visited by the Bishop, and have a regular priest, the Rev. James 
McGuire, who officiates to a large congregation, thorouglily devoted to the 
doctrines of the Roman Church. 

Abyssinian Society. This Society, composed of colored people, was formed 
and incorporated in 1828, and the same year they commenced a house of worship 
on Munjoy's hill, which is completed. The Rev. A. N. Freeman is now the 
Pastor, who also has charge of the public school for colored children, which has an 
average attendance ol 50 pupils. The colored people of the city are a respectable 
body of citizens. 

Scaman^s Chapel. A Society was incorporated iii 1827 for the purpose of 
providing religious instruction for Seamen, under the name of " The Trustees of 
the Mariner's Church." The large and beautiful granite building on Fore street, 
occupying the space between Long and Commercial wharves, 61 feet, was erected 
in 1828, containing a spacious Chapel in the third story, and other apartments and 
stores, by the rent of which it was hoped to defray the expense, over a liberal 
aubscription obtained for the object. But in this, the Trustees were disappointed, 



MINISTRY AT LARGE. 453 

nnd after about fifteen years, the whole property became forfeited to the mortagees 
for the nonpayment of the money hired to erect the building. Afterwards, services 
were held in the Exchange Hall, and now in the City Hall. The Rev. George W. 
Bourne officiated for a number of years, but he was called to Boston in 1847; after 
that, the Rev. Mr. Mitchell, the City missionary, preached and now preaches to 
the Society. In 1847, a new effort was made to procure a building suited to the 
importance of the object; and a brick Church on Fore street was commenced in 
1847, and is now nearly completed, the fruit of the subscriptions and generous 
exertions of individuals, who felt a deep interest in the welfare of seamen. 

The Ministry to the Poor . No regular organized action, in regard to adniinis- 
tering to the spiritual wants of the Poor of this city took place, until 1845. Prior 
to that time, Sunday Schools had been established in various parts of the city, for 
the instruction of their cliildren, and such adults as chose to attend, but otherwise 
this field of useful labor, so happily commenced in Boston by Dr. Tuckerman, and 
adopted by other large cities, had not been cultivated. The first movement in this 
good work, was made by the Second, Third and High street Churches, in May, 
1845. They then employed the Rev. David M. Mitchell, who had been settled in 
Waldoborough, to take charge of this ministry, and raised for him by voluntary 
subscription, $400 a year, with the privilege of preaching in other places, and 
appropriating the proceeds to his own use. Under this arrangement no regular 
religious services were held in the city, for the poor; the attention of the Missionary 
being principally turned to visiting the sick and destitute, comforting them in their 
sorrows and afflictions, and gathering supplies for their temporal wants. But in 
May, 1848, the same religious societies, perceiving that this arrangement was 
inefficient, and did not accomplish the objects desired, formed an association under 
the name of the "Portland City Missionary Society," with a board of Directors 
and other officers, with the design of extending and making permanent the purposes 
which they had so liberally conceived. The Rev. Mr. Mitchell continues to officiate 
as before, but has no chapel in which to preach to the people of his charge, nor has 
he as yet organized Schools; he officiates now on the Sabbath, in the City Hall, 
under the Bethel Flag. 

In 1847, the pastor of the First Parish, Dr. Nichols, conferred with a number of 
the members of his Society, on the expediency and duty of making an effort to 
promote religious instruction among that portion of our population whom the sound 
of the gospel had never reached. His wishes were eagerly seconded, and a 
movement was immediately made by many members of the Parish, and particularly 
by the ladies, to establish an association for the purpose of communicating religious 
truth, as well as temporal comfort, to the poor, by schools, and preaching and 
pastoral visits. ' A fair was held by the Channing circle, a society of ladies of the 
1st Parish, from which about 500 dollars was obtained, and about the same sum by 
a subscription, which looked forward to an annual continuance. Happily at this 
juncture. Miss Martha C. Hall, a maiden lady, member of the First Church and 
Parish, (and grand-daughter of Wm. Cotton, for many years in the last century 
deacon of the church,) conceived the benevolent design of consecrating her whole 
■estate to a work of feligion and benevolence. To that end she constituted, by will, 



4o4 MINISTRY AT LARGE. 

"the First Parish" her trustees, with power and instructions to appropriate the 
annual income of her property to promote the cause of religion, charity and good 
morals, by such modes of ministration as the Pastor and the trustees of the Charity 
Fund of the Parish should direct. The estate produced something over 5000 dollars, 
and the proceeds of the Fund have been directed to nourish the " ministry at 
large," thus established by the Parish. 

After several ineffectual attempts to procure a suitable minister, the Rev. Wm. 
H. Hadley, who was educated at Union College, and had preached at Montague 
and Keimebunk, accepted the invitation of the Committee, in the spring of 1849, 
and entered upon his duties in April of that year. He immediately opened a 
Sunday School in the Ward room of the Exchange building, which was on the first 
day attended by more than 50 children, which number increased to over 140 in a 
few Sabbaths, with a suitable number of teachers, who have freely tendered their 
services. The children were taken from the poorest and most dependent families 
in the city,, whom it was found necessary to clothe, before they were fit to be 
brought into the school ; and this part of the arrangement was accomplished by the 
■benevolent efforts of the ladies of the two Unitarian Societies. The conduct of 
the children is orderly, their appearance neat and intelligent, and their progress 
satisfactory. The whole number enrolled in the school in August, 1849, was 170. 

Mr. Hadley also established an evening school for the adults of both sexes, who 
were unable to attend day schools, which was also well aUended, and afforded most 
signal tokens of improvement in the pupils, whose ages varied fioin 12 to 36. 
Both schools have fully met the approbation, not only of those by wiiose means and 
energies they were put in operation, but of the community at large. In addition to 
the above, chapel services are held every Sunday forenoon for the poor. The 
institution is in charge of the two Unitarian Societies of the city. 

The concurrent action of these two ministries is destined, we believe, to promote 
the truest welfare of the city. Moral instruction, influence and restraint, should 
accompany the rapid developements in the material world, now manifesting them- 
selves. A true and safe progress can only be made, when the spiritual and moral 
growth keeps pace with the advance of the outward and the physical. So- 
ciety, like the individual, has two natures, and it is only when proper attention is 
paid to the developeraent of each, that it attains to its full dignity and perfection. 
The masses must be educated and enhghtened; the true principles of action must 
be called forth and stengthened, the moral power maintain its eminent position, in 
the struggle of conflicting forces in which the human being is shaped and disciplined, 
and prepared to discharge in the best possible manner the duties of its earthly 
course. It is to bring disciplinary influences to bear upon the most tried and 
tempted — that part of community which, by the force of circumstances, is least 
able to resist temptation — that the ministrations of these noble charities were 
established. To enlighten the ignorant, to reform the vicious, to guide the young 
to whom religion had never whispered its inspiring language, and preach the gospel 
to the poor, and to adminster consolation, advice and relief to those whoip the world 
passes by — is their heaven directed object and avowed mission. To that end they 
have already largely contributed, and give cheering promise of increasing usefulness. 



BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES. 455 

BENEVOLENT AND OTHER SOCIETIES IN PORTLAND. 

Portland Marine Society. Incorporated in 1796 : Annual Meeting 3d Tuesday 
in December. This Society was established " for the promotion of the knowledge 
of navigation and seamanship, and for the relief of decayed and disabled seamen." 
Its funds in December, 1846, were f 6,469 36. 

Seamen's Friend Society. Established in June, 1840, for the promotion of 
education, good morals, and relief of seamen. The offices are generally filled by 
retired ship masters, who know the dangers and wants of that class of persons. 

Ladies' Relief Society. Organized in November, 1846, for the relief of ship 
wrecked and destitute mariners. 

Portland Benevolent Society. This society was incorporated in the year 1803. 
Its design was to relieve and assist those who might require relief in a manner 
ditferent from that which is by law provided for the support and employment of 
the poor. It was not to go into operation until the sum subscribed should amount 
to ^6000. This sum was obtained by subscriptions of from five to fiuy dollars 
a year, and one prompt payment of twenty dollars. Managers are annually 
appointed to distribute the sums received. They meet once every month during 
winter for this purpose. 

Bible Society of Maine. This was the fourth Bible Society established in the 
United States. The first was at Philadelphia, the second at Hartford,. Conn., and 
the third at Boston. It was formed in August, 1809, and incorporated in March, 
1810. It has no funds that draw interest, but is supported by subscriptions, dona- 
tions and contributions. • The Trustees meet every two months, and have sub-com- 
mittees for tho purchase and distribution of Bibles, under their direction ; but the 
extent of their business has been reduced by the recent establishment of indepen- 
dent Societies in every County in the State, except that in the County of Oxford, 
which is auxiliary to this. By a vote of the Society, at a meetnig held at 
Portland, on the 16th of October, 1816, it became auxiliary to the American Bible 
Society. 

Female Charitable Society. Formed in 1812; incorporated in 1825; conducted 
wholly by ladies. It is a very elBcient agent in relieving the poor of the city. 

Female Orphan Asylum. This excellent institution was established in 1828, 
The average number of children supported by it is 25. They own the house occu- 
pied by them on the corner of Myrtle and Oxford streets, and have a permanent 
fund which contributes to its support. The late Asa Clapp bequeathed to the City, 
in trust for this institution, the sum of $8,000; the interest of which, at 6 per cent, 
to be annually appropriated to its use. 

Widows' Wood Society. Established in 1830, and annually distributes wood to 
the value of $750, to the poor widows of the city. Mr. Clapp also made a liberal 
bequest of $4,000 to the city, the interest to be applied for the relief of widows- 
and other destitute persons. The city made this Society its almoners last year. 



456 KENEVOLENT i'OClETIES. 

Maine Cliurilahle Mechanic Association. This Soriety was instituted January 
IC, and incorporated June 14, 1815. The Act of Incorporation renders it capable 
in law " to purchase, have, hold, use, take, possess, retain and enjoy, in fee simple 
or otherwise, any personal or real estate, not exceeding the value of $10,000 ia 
real estate, and $10,000 dollars hi personal estate," and gives it power to " sell, 
alien and dispose of the same at their pleasure." 

Its government is vested in a President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, 
and nine Trustees. Each member pays one dollar annually. The number of 
members at the formation of the Society was 132. The meetings of the associa- 
tion are on the first Tuesdays of April and October. 

The design of this association is to encourage and promote the mechanic arts, 
to relieve indigent members, and the widows and orphans of deceased members, 
when in need; and also to assist members by loans of money. 

It is possessed of a valuable Library of over 1500 volumes, and has a cabinet of 
minerals, presented by the State. Through its kindly offices it has done, and is 
doing, much to enhance the respectability and intelligence of the mechanics of this 
City. 

Tnistees of fhe Charity Fund of the First Parish. This charity had its 
origin in a subscription made by a few ladies of the Parish — at the head of whom 
was Madam Deering, widow of Nathaniel Deering — previous to 1818, amounting 
to $833. This was afterwards increased by a subscription from the gentlemen, of 
$610; the interest of which was to be applied by the Trustees "in assisting and 
relieving the poor and necessitous members of the parish." An Act was obtained 
in 1818 "to Incorporate the Trustees of the Charity Fund of the First Parish," 
who have ever since continued a body corporate for the purposes aforesaid, steadily 
administering the trust for the benefit of the objects designated. The fund now 
amounts to about $4000. 

In 1847, ]\Iiss Martha C. Hall, grand daughter of Deacon Wm. Cotton, of the 
second Parish, bequeathed to the Parish the principal part of her estate, amountmg 
to over $5000, the income of which she directed to be applied by the Trustees of 
the Charity Fund, forever, " to promote the cause of religion, charity and good 
morals, by such modes of ministration and relief as m their judgment may be 
proper." The Parish and the Trustees have accepted the trust, and taken neces- 
sary measures to carry the liberal designs of the donor into effect. 

There are numerous other Societies of a benevolent and philanthropic character 
in town, which it is not necessary now to particularise. The Masonic, Rechabite, 
Odd Fellow, and Temperance associations are .very numerous ; all constituting a 
mass of efficient and charitable action seldom concentrated on any one point no 
larger than our own, and such as no age of the world has ever witnessed before the 
present. 



COMMERCE. 457 

COMMERCE OF PORTLAND. 

I pass now to a view of the Commercial character of Portland. The District to 
which Portland belongs, in the distribution of the United States, embraces several 
towns in the neighborhood, as Falmouth, North Yarmouth, Freeport, Brunswick 
and Harpswell ; each of which contributes something to the aggregate of the 
tonnage of which Portland is the central point. On the 1st of January, 1849, the 
whole tonnage of this District was 79,333J, showing it to be the 7th m the 
quantity of its registered tonnage in the U. S.; the Districts of Boston, New 
Bedford, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans, going before it. 
The tonnage of Portland alone, on January 1, 1849, was 51,110, consisting of 23 
ships, 70 barks, 78 brigs, 114 schooners and 4 steamers. 

The following facts will exhibit a view of the progress in navigation in the town. 
In 1787, there was not a ship owned here; in 1789, the number of tons was about 
5000; in 1793, it had increased to 11,173 tons, consisting of 13 ships, 44 brigs, 23 
schooners and 20 sloops. In 1807, it had risen to 39,009 tons; but from this time 
it fell off during the period of Commercial embarrassments and war, and did not 
recover until after the peace with Great Britain in 1815. In 1829, it stood at 
51,111 tons, including 16 ships, 8 barks and 107 brigs, which in 1832, had 
advanced to 28 ships, 102 brigs, 215 schooners, 33 sloops and 3 steamboats. It 
will be perceived that a new class of vessels has been rapidly gaining m popular 
favor, and barks, from their simple rig and more easy management, have, in a 
measure, taken the place of ships. 

Our Commercial progress may also be made observable from other points of 
view. In 1787, the number of arrivals was — 1 ship, 31 brigs, 35 schooners and 22 
sloops for the year, of which 78 were from foreign ports. The clearances were 
99, of which 87 were for foreign ports. In 1827, forty years after, the arrivals 
from foreign ports alone amounted tS 28,298 tons, and in 1831 the number of 
foreign arrivals was 200, and clearances to foreign ports 218; and in 1848, the 
number of foreign entries was 315, and of clearances to foreign ports 372. 

Let us look agaui to the value of the trade. In 1790, the whole amount of 
duties received at the Custom house itl merchandise imported, was but $8,109; in 
1801 it was $204,333, and in 1806, a period of unparalleled commercial pros- 
perity, it was $342,909. In 1848, the value of merchandise imported into the port 
was $616,045, which is the invoice or Custom house value on which duties are 
payable, but far short of the real value. The amount of duties payable upon this 
cannot be ascertained in consequence of the system of warehousing those imports 
which are not requii-ed for immediate use. The principal articles imported, are — 
molasses, sugar, iron and salt. But these are hardly an indication of the trade of 
the place, as the coastwise imports, which make no figure in Custom house returns, 
surpass in value the amount of foreign imports. The comparison will appear in 
part, by the following brief statement. 

Foreign imports in 1848 of leading articles were — molasses 3,631,987 gallons, 
sugar 410,035 pounds, salt 133,505 bushels, railroad iron 5,309 tons, equal in 
value to $1,250,000. 

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45S COMMERCE, 

The coastwise imports for the same period, of three principal articles, were — 
flour 119,400 barrels, corn 232,123 bushels, coal 1037^ tons, valued at a 
little short of a million of dollars. For the first six months of the present year, 73,000 
barrels of flour were imported here, against 57,000 during the same period last 
year. The exports were beef, both fresh and salted, pork, fish, some flour, corn 
and meal, butter, hay about 18,000 tons, potatoes about 2,000 barrels, leather, 
lumber about 3,000,000 feet, shooks, heading, ice, &c. Beside these transactions, 
the daily exchange of provisions, fruit and vegetables, and the purchase of merchan- 
dise in the markets of other towns on the coast, as Boston, Providence, New York, 
&c., afford constant employment to a large number of persons engaged in theiv 
growth, transportation and sale. It would be diflicult to prepare a table in these 
branches of business, approaching to accuracy; but as the operations are incessant, 
their aggregate must be large. The various articles of our growth and manufac- 
ture are exchanged in other markets, for the manufactures, raw materials and 
productions which enter into the use and trade of our people, and administer to 
their comfort or luxury. 

It is gratifying to observe the high rank which the last annual report concerning 
the navigation and commerce of the country, gives to Maine. Of 318,075 tons of 
vessels built the last year, the proportion in Maine was 90,000 tons, which, 
excluding river craft, as steamers, flat boats, &c., shows that Maine, whose vessels 
are principally of a large class, has contributed nearly one half to the external 
commerce of the country, and double that of any other State ; New York and 
Massachusetts adding but about 40,000 tons each. The whole number of ships, 
barks and brigs, built in that period, was 428, of which Maine furnished 248, 
while all the other States furnished but 180. 

The same document shows also another striking fact, alike honorable to the 
enterprise and position of Maine. The whole tonnage of the country, of all 
descriptions, was 3,154,041 ; of this, Maine owned 452,321, and ranked as the 3rd 
State in the Union, in this particular. New York, which takes the lead, owned 
845,784 tons, of which a large proportion is employed on ber rivers and lakes; and 
Massachusetts owned 622,579 tons. The increase in Maine since 1830, is over 
350,000 tons. Maine now owns more tonnage than was owned in the U. States in 
1790, which was 478,377 tons. We are happy to believe that a similar advance 
has been making in our State, in other branches of industry, enterprise and wealth, 
and that resources have been developed which manifest a capacity for indefinite 
improvement and progress that will place Maine among the first States of our 
confederacy. 

Banks. There are five Banks in town, with an aggregate capital of $1,025,000, 
viz : Canal, $400,000 ; Casco, $300,000 ; Mercliants', ^150,000 ; Bankof Cum- 
berland, $100,000, and Manufacturers' and Traders', !tf75,000. Their average 
circulation is about $600,000, and their loan about $1,650,000. 

Insurance Companies. There are but two Insurance Companies established in 
the City, under Acts of Incorporation from this State, viz : " The Ocean," with 
a capital of $100,000, engaged in fire as well as marine risks. It was incorporated 



COMMEKCB. 459 

m 1832, and its business has generally been successful. The whole number of 
marine policies it has issued to May 2, 1849, has been 9801 ; they have paid for 
losses t'518,500, and received for premiums ^679,541 ; the earnings and their 
invested capital have enabled them to make an average dividend of 8 per cent, per 
annum from the commencement of their business. The whole amount they have 
insured is $22,710,141. 

" The Portland Mutual Fire Insurance Company" was incorporated in 1828, 
and was immediately organized ; since which, to October, 1848, it has insured to 
an amount exceeding eleven millions of dollars. At present the number of existing 
policies is 776, and the amount at risk $!757,000. Their business has been remark- 
ably successful, having met with but few losses, and having accumulated a reserved 
fund of $30,000, of which $10,000 is invested in the Atlantic and St. Lawrence 
Railroad Stock, $4,000 in Bank Stock, and the balance in mortgage and other 
securities. 

There are numerous agencies in the city of Companies incorporated by other 
States, as Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and even Ken- 
tucky, in which are insured lives, health, and property at sea and on land to a vast 
amount. The agencies are doing a far larger business than our own offices. 

Wharves. The whole southern margin of the city is bordered by wharves, from 
the foot of India street to the station of the Portsmouth and Saco Railroad; several 
of them stretching from the bank to the channel, are covered with stores. 
The names by which they are commonly known, commencing on the northeast, 
are as follows : Andrews, or Steamboat; Sturdivant's; Railway^these are east of 
Clay Cove ; Burnham's ; Maine ; Custom House, formerly Titcomb's, recently 
extended; Portland Pier; Commercial, formerly Ingraham's; Long, Central, Wid- 
gery's. Union, Merrill's, Richardson's, Brown's, Sawyer's, Robmson's, and Rail 
Road, besides several breast works scattered along the distance. Union wharf^ 
which is the longest, and the first commenced on a large scale, is 2200 feet long, 
and was begun by a company of merchants in 1793; the principal undertakers 
were David Smith, Robert Boyd, McLellan & Son, E. Ilsley & Son, Woodbury 
Storer, John Mussey and Daniel Ilsley. Long wharf, the next in length, was 
undertaken the same year by Nathaniel Deering, the heirs of James Milk, John 
Fox, and others. Commercial wharf, next to Long, was commenced by Joseph 
Ingraham, and was owned by him ; it was originally 666 feet long, but has been 
extended within two years about three hundred feet. Portland Pier was com- 
menced in 1807 by proprietors of the fiats — Josiah Cox, Joseph Noyes, Peter War- 
ren, and others, and is about 600 feet long. Custom House wharf was in early 
times Pearson's breast work, then Titcomb's wharf, extended from the breastwork 
by Deacon Titcomb and his sons ; it has been recently purchased by a Company, 
and greatly enlarged and improved. The Marine Railway and Railway wharf 
were first built by an incorporated company in 1826 ; the Railway is an inclined 
plane, on which vessels are taken up from the dock and repaired; it is a vast im- 
provement upon the old method of graving and repairing ve.ssels, and has been 
found profitable. Another has been built, east of this, and is also in operation. 



460 RAILROADS. 

The number of superficial feet occupied by the wharves of the city is about five 
hundred thousand. 

Streets. The number of streets and lanes in the city is 130; the widest of 
which is State street — being 100 feet wide ; the usual width is from two to four 
rods, and they are extremely irregular both in width and courses. It is in contem- 
plation to construct a new street, one hundred feet wide, south of Fore street, over 
the flats, to connect the stations of the eastern and western Railroads. The city 
has voted to contribute $!25,000 to the object, relying upon the Railroad Companies 
to do the remainder. The whole expense is estimated at about $200,000. Rails 
are to be laid in the centre of the road. 

RAILROADS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS. 

One of the causes, and the one which has contributed more than any other, 
perhaps, to give a sudden impulse to the growth of Portland, has been the 
introduction of the Railroad system, by which Portland has become the central 
point of communication, between the seaboard and the interior. The advantages 
which this medium of transportation afforded, were early perceived ; and 
soon after the construction of Railroads commenced in Massachusetts, public 
attention in Portland, and other parts of the State, was drawn to the subject. 
There was but one opinion in regard to the importance of these roads, and all 
eyes were turned to a union of the St. Lawrence with some part of our coast, 
which is loo miles nearer to that river, than any other point of the Atlantic ocean. 
For this purpose the State employed a skilful Engineer, to make reconnoisance of 
suitable routes across the State to Quebec. Afterwards, in 1839, a survey was 
made of a route to Lake Champlain. But at that time, the magnitude of these 
undertakings, and the enormous expenditures they involved, deterred our people 
from proceeding beyond the mere preliminary estimates for those gigantic works; 
and especially as our community was comparatively young, and with barely 
•ufficient capital to conduct the ordinary operations of business. 

In 1842, the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth road was opened, but this waa 
conceived to be of little or no benefit to our city, being regarded rather as the 
medium of withdrawing business from us, and exhausting our means to build up 
the other terminus, than as contributing to our growth or wealth. It therefore 
received little aid or encouragement from our people. But it had a tendency to 
make us acquainted with railroad facilities, expenditures and operations, and 
quickened a consideration of the importance of opening the interior to an interchange 
of commercial benefits. It was soon after this, that the grand project of a railroad 
to the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, was conceived — the subject was discussed in 
the public papers; public meetings were held, and the cily came forward in its 
corporate capacity, and caused a survey to be made, of a route to the Canada 
line, with a view of connecting with a route to be surveyed from Montreal. This 
was done in the autumn of 1844. Commissioners were sent from Portland to 
Montreal, consisting of Judge Preble, Josiah S. Little and John A. Poor, to confer 
with the people of Canada, on the subject. The mission resulted m awakening a 



RAILROADS. 4G1 

deep interest in that city and Province in the proposed measure, and led, in both 
countries, to procuring acts of incorporation from their respective legislatures, for a 
road, proceeding from the seaboard at Portland, to the St. Lawrence at Montreal, 
forming a junction at the boundary line, between the two countries, near the source 
of the Connecticut river. 

THE ATLANTIC AND ST. LAWRENCE RAILROAD CO. 

Was chartered by Maine February 10th, 1845, and measures were imme- 
diately taken to arouse the public mind to the importance of the work; meetings 
were held in various towns on the route; statistics were collected and spread 
before the people, and before the close of the year, more than one million of 
dollars was subscribed, of which over three quarters was obtained in Portland 
alone, for the accomplishment of one of the grandest enterprises of the day. The 
company was organized September 25, 1845, and the thirteen Directors then 
chosen, at the head of whom was placed the Hon. Wm. P. Preble, went imme- 
diately and earnestly at work to carry the objects of the charter and the wishes of 
the stockholders into operation. In July, 1848, eleven miles of the road, to North 
Yarmouth, were opened to public travel, and in February, 1849, thirty-seven 
miles to Mechanic Falls, a village in Poland and Minot, and while we are going to 
press, four miles more, to Oxford; and contracts made and materials collected, 
and the work in good progress for the extension to Paris, forty-seven miles from 
Portland, which will probably be accomplished before these lines issue from the 
press. It is also gratifying to know that the same zeal is manifested at the other 
end of the line, in Canada, for the extension and completion of the enterprise; a 
distance of thirty miles, to St. Hyacinthe, a large village in that Province, was 
opened in December, 1848, and further progress making towards the junction. So 
much has been already done, and with such manifest success in the increase of 
travel and transportation, that every needful encouragement is given, that the 
whole distance of about two hundred and seventy-eight miles, will speedily be 
overcome, and thus a new channel of interior navigation be opened, and the ocean 
be practically brought to the piers of Montreal; and Montreal, the St. Lawrence 
and the Great Lakes lay their treasures on the margin of the Atlantic at Portland. 
Since the above was written, a contract has been entered into by the two roads, 
for the completion of the whole distance in three years. 

To the million subscribed for the Atlantic side of the route, the city of Portland 
came forward in 1848, and procured an act to enable them to advance the credit of 
the city, in its corporate capacity, to accomplish this grand enterprise; and the 
city has agreed to pledge its credit, in pursuance of the act, to the extent of a 
million of dollars, for the completion of the work. A portion of the money baa 
been already procured, and the remainder will be forthcoming as it is needed, and 
the work advances. The length of that part of the line on this side of the boundary 
is one hundred and fifty miles, and in Canada, one hundred and twenty-eight; the 
estimated cost of which for the one hundred and fifty miles, is about three millions 
of dollars; of which it is perceived that two millions are already secured, The 



402 RAILUOADS. 

distance from Montreal to Boston, by the Vermont and New Hampshire routes, is 
three hundred and eighty-seven miles, giving Portland the benefit of one hundred 
and seven miles, in the line of distance, which is no inconsiderable item, whether 
we look at time and freight in transportation, or in expense of construction and 
repair. 

This line of rail road is constructed upon the medium broad guage of five feet 
si\ inches, thus deviating from that adopted in Massachusetts, which is four feet 
eight inches, and is considered a decided improvement upon it, both in capacity of 
speed and poA'er of dri.fl. The adoption of this guage produced a painful 
controversy with the friends of the narrow guage, and with those who believed it 
important to form a connection with the Massachusetts lines; but these considera- 
tions yielded to the force of the argument in favor of what was in fact the best 
guage, for utility, safety and power. 

The average daihj receipts, for the first four months of 1849, of this road, were 
$;273 73, viz: for passengers, $159 20; freight, iftllS 53. The whole receipts for 
the month of April, were !9;7,272 45; of which, for passengers, $4,272 21; freight, 
3,000 24; or an average of $290 90 for each working day. 

The Buckfield Branch enters the Atlantic and St. Lawrence road at Mechanic 
Falls, thirty-seven miles from Portland, and extends twelve miles to the village of 
Buckfield, and will be opened for travel in the course of the year, making the 
distance fifty miles; it leads from the sea coast into the heart of the county of 
Oxford, which is rich in agricultural products, and other valuable resources. The 
whole expense of making the road, with the equipments and apparatus, will 
come up to about $250,000. 

Another enterprise connected with this, and greatly beneficial to the trade and 
prosperity of Portland, is the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad, which 
connects with the Atlantic and St. Lawrence, at Danville, 27 miles from Portland, 
and proceeds to Waterville, a distance of 55 miles farther. To the stock of this 
road, the people of Portland largely contributed; and it has been earnestly pushed 
towards its eastern terminus, which it may reach or nearly approach before this 
notice meets the public eye, having already been opened to Readfield, 60 miles 
from Portland. 

But we ought not to call Waterville its eastern terminus; for we have no other 
thought in regard to it, than that it is destined, and that before many years elapse, 
to pass on through the centre of the State to the eastern capital, Bangor, thence to 
Calais, thence, after a short breathing spell, on to St. John, and still on, until it 
reaches the sea wliich washes the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, where passage 
may be taken to the nearest land of the old world, and save a week's navigatiou 
upon the ocean. 

This great trunk road will receive branches from the principal places on each 
side, and thus open the whole State, and the British provinces, to a free and easy 
communication with Portland, and the Capital of New England, and the arts and 
commerce of the conniiercial and manufacturing population of the States. This i« 
a condition of things which our venerable Journalisls, Smilh and Denne, never 



RAILKOABS. 463 

dreamed of in their philosopliy. The former, with no very prophetic spirit, 
niouniiug over the melancholy ruins of Portland, in 1780, predicted that it would 
not recover its former condition under twenty years ! when lo, in ten years it far 
surpassed it. 

Kennebec and Portland Railroad. This road was commenced ui 1847, to 
connect Portland with Augusta, the seat of government of Maine, and to form a 
continuous Railroad communication with Boston. For this purpose they adopted 
the Massachusetts guage of four feet eight inches — thus disconnecting themselves 
from the Atlantic and St. Lawrence, and the Androscoggin and Kennebec roads, 
which preferred a wider guage, of five feet six inches. The distance from Portland 
to Augusta, on the line of this road, is 64 4-lOth miles, and of the branch from 
Bath to Brunswick 8 4-lOth miles. The work was commenced on the Bath division 
June 1, 1847, and on the North Yarmouth division in the following August, with 
the view of having the whole road opened at once. But imperious circumstances, 
the extreme pressure for money, determined the company to alter their plan, and 
concentrate their force upon portions of the road more imnjediately wanted for use, 
viz : from North Yarmouth to Bath, and from Brunswick to Bowdoinham. The 
timber for the superstructure is prepared by a process adopted in England, and 
commonly called kyanising, to check its decay, by which it is steamed in boilers 
and saturated with coal tar, and then subjected to a pressure of 200 pounds to a 
square inch; the whole process requiring eight hours. The cars commenced run- 
ning on this road from Bath to North Yarmouth, a distance of twenty-three miles, 
July 4, 1849. The success of the road has far exceeded the anticipations of its 
proprietors, and they have now determined, by a renewed effort, to extend it 
directly to Portland, to save the inconvenience of a change of cars at North Yar- 
mouth. 

The York and Cumberland Railroad was undertaken to form a line of com- 
munication from Portland through the western portion of Cumberland County and 
the County of York, to connect with the Boston and Maine Railroad in South 
Berwick or Somersworth. The charter was granted in 1846, and the Company 
was organized July 20, 1848; Joshua Richardson, of Portland, was elected Presi- 
dent, and Toppan Robie, of Gorham, Treasurer. The route passes through the 
towns of Westbrook, including the village of Saccarappa, where are extensive 
manufacturing establishments ; Gorham, Buxton, Mollis, Waterboro', Alfred, N. 
Berwick, and Berwick to Salmon Falls — a distance of about 49 miles. It was put 
under contract in the summer of 1848, and the work immediately commenced on 
the line between Portland and Gorham, 10| miles, which is now in a good state of 
forwardness. The whole cost of tliis road this distance, will be $319,000; the iron 
has been purchased for ten miles, and will probably be laid before the close of 1849. 

The whole cost of the road is estimated at ^1,155,500, and when completed, 
it will open markets to a country hitherto somewhat excluded, but rich in resources, 
and filled with an intelligent and energetic population. 

Portland Company. In connection with these large Railroad improvements, 
and in consequence of them, a Company was promptly established in 1846, under 



464 PORTLAND COMPANY. 

an Act of Incorporation, for the manufacture of all the equipments of a Raihoad, 
and of all other works in wood and the metals. The charter authorises a capital 
of ^250,000, of vvhich $100,000 was deemed sufficient to commence operations. 
This sum was immediately subscribed, principally by the citizens of Portland ; an 
eli<;ible site purchased, and spacious and convenient buildings commenced at the 
eastern extremity of the town, adjoining the Railroad, on the point which has 
borne the successive names of " Machigonne," " Meeting house," and " Jordan's 
point." 

Of the stock subscribed, $!96,640 were paid in by July 1, 1849, on 1669 shares, 
by over 350 share holders, and the works were then in successful operation. At 
some portion of the time 165 men have been employed, beside the Superintendent, 
Treasurer and Clerk ; but in June, 1849, the number was 125, of the following 
description, viz : Machinists, 44; Blacksmiths, 23; Car makers, 22; Founders, 19; 
Boiler makers, 9; Pattern makers, 3; Laborers, 5. 

The quantity of work performed during less than three years that the Company 
has been in operation, may be inferred from the following statement : Locomotive 
Engines, 10; Passenger cars, 9; Mail cars, 3; Earth cars, 22; Platform cars, 30; 
Box freight cars, 40; 1 Steamboat and 1 Stationary Engine, 150 tons of Rail chairs, 
besides a large amount ^of other castings and repairs. The amount in value of 
manufactures in two only of the branches, has been, in the Car department 
^41,064,93. Engine department, $1181,603,70. 

The permanent investments of the Company are as follows, viz : land, wharves, 
and bridges, ^12,628,29 

Buildings, 35,447,36 

Tools, 33,588,59 

$81,664,24 

A new Engine built by the Company for their own use, of 60 or 70 horse power, 
IS nearly ready to be put into operation, to supply the place of one of 20 horse 
power, used from the beginning. 

The first work turned out by the Company was in October, 1847 ; and for the 
year ending June 30, 1849, two semi-annual dividends, of 3 per cent, each, have 
been declared, leaving a surplus of about $3000 on hand. The result of this 
spirited undertaking has fully answered the expectations of its proprietors, notwith- 
standing various difficulties and embarrassments, arising from want of experience 
in such works, and a very stringent condition in the monetary concerns of the 
country for a year or two past. 

The officers of the Company for the year 1849, are John A. Poor, President; 
George Warren, J. B. Cahoon, A. W. H. Clapp, Charles Jones, Horace Felton, 
Thomas R. Jones, Directors. (T. R. Jones was elected in place of John Fox, 
who retired after a faithful and able service of two years.) Horace Felton, Super- 
intendent. James C. Churchill, Secretary and Treasurer. 

The price of a locomotive engbe varies from $7000 to $8,300, and passenger 
cars go as high as $2,300. The work done by this Company has the reputation of 
being of the best quality, and is every way worthy of its reputation. 



STEAM PACKET COMPANY. 465 

The influence of this establishment was immediately felt, In connection with tho 
Railroad, in stimulating the enterprise and industry of our city, and has had a 
manifest tendency to draw business and population toward that portion of the town 
where their operations commenced, and where all the business of the town in the 
early days of the settlement was done. 

How changed the scene, from the solitary promontory of Machigonne, upon 
which the Indians and fost settlers met, 200 years ago ! It then threw the 
dark shadows of its rocks and forest over the silent waters of the bay, and all waa 
still save the occasional dip of the settler's or savage's oar ; now the glaring fires 
and dense smoke of furnaces, the whistle of steam engines, the reveberating blows 
of the sturdy sons of Vulcan, the beautiful bay, studded with tho white sails of a 
prosperous commerce, and the overhanging hill, crowned with habitations, reveal 
the advance of civilization, and the power of commerce, enterprise and wealth. 

In connection with a statement of the works of the Portland Company, which is 
the largest manufacturing establishment among us, I will add that there are in town 
twenty-three stationary steam engines, varying from one to forty horse power, and 
averaging nine and one-third horse power each. These are applied to various pur- 
poses, from kneading bread, to the manufacture of steam engines. The largest is 
connected with Brown's sugar-house, which has the power of forty horses. The 
power is regulated with unerring accuracy, and the nicest delicacy, while at the same 
time it can be directed with a steadmess and force that are sure of their object. This 
unwearied power saws lumber, manufactures cabinet furniture, administers to the 
forging of metals, handles iron like the softest wood, drives the printing press and 
scatters thought with unparalleled velocity, grinds the tanner's bark, supplies the 
baker's oven, and saves human bone and nuiscle from over taxation to meet the de- 
mands of an insatiable commerce. It is this power which has produced the 
most wonderful developements in the material world, and elevated the present age 
far above all that have preceded it, in mechanical achievement. 

Portland Steam Packet Compamj. A few gentlemen thinking it would be pro- 
fitable to themselves and beneficial to the city to have a more regular and prompt 
communication with Boston by water, formed a company in 1843 for the purpose of 
putting Propeller Steamboats on to the route. In the following winter, they pro- 
cured an act of incorporation, authorising them to employ a capital of §100,000, 
and in May, 1844, put on their first boat, the Commodore Preble, of 286 tons, and 
fifty horse power, at a cost of iif22,500. This was soon after followed by another 
boat, the General Warren, of the same power, and 309 tons. The experiment was 
successful; the regularity with which they performed their passages, and the low 
rates both for freight and passengers, secured to them a profitable business, and 
enabled them to overcome the competition of the railroad, which could not carry 
bulky merchandise at rates to be at all compared with steamboat transportation. 
This success raised up an opposition from another quarter; a side wheel boat was 
put on to the route to compete with them, which, by its greater speed, attracted 
passengers. To meet this, the company found it necessary to procure a boat of 
similar description, to run in connection with their Propellers. They therefore put 
59 



4S6 



SELECTMEN. 



the John Marshal on to the line, at an expense of $40,000, which was able, by its 
capacity and speed, to carry off the prize. She is 500 tons burthen, has a two 
hundred horse power, and a speed of fourteen miles an hour. Her usual speed is 
about twelve miles an hour, while the speed of the Propellers is eight miles. These 
run regularly five nights in summer, and the Propellers three nights in winter, with 
a regularity and safety never before known on this route. The stock is divided 
among twenty stockholders, at $300 a share, and $81,000 of the capital stock have 
been paid in. An idea of the business may be formed from the fact, that the boats 
in 1848 transported 25,000 passengers, and received for freight, independent of 
passage money, $40,596. The business is now conducted by Capt. J. B. Coyle, 
whose experience and intelligence infuse life and activity into the affairs of the 
company. 

TOWN OFFICERS. 

We publish Mr. Freeman's list of public officers of the town and county, which 
was complete to 1821, from the incorporation of Falmouth in 1718, and contuiue it 
to the prese&t time : 

SELECTMEN. 

yre. 



1718 to 1786. 


yrs. 


Henry Wheeler, 


5 


John Wass, 




Edmund Mountford, 




William Scales, 




James Buxton, 




Dominicus Jordan, 


5 


James Brickie, 




John Prichard, 


2 


Robert Thorndike, 


S 


Benjamin Skillins, 


4 


Joseph Cobb, 




Samuel Moody, 


7 


Gowen Wilson, 


2 


Benjamin Larrabee, 




Joshua Moody, 


2 


Richard Collier, 




James Gooding, 


11 


Jolm Sawyer, 


5 


Thomas West brook, 


2 


Matthew Scales, 


2 


James Noble, 


2 


Daniel IngersoU, 


2 


Joseph Thomson, 


3 


William Roberts, 




Nathaniel Noyes, 


6 


Samuel Buckman, 




Jolm Waite, 


4 


James Armstrong, 




Charles Frost, 


2 


Benjamm York, 


4 


Joseph Noyes, 


4 


Samuel Cobb, 


4 


Robert Mitchell, 




Benjamin IngersoU, 


3 


Ezekiel Cashing, 


9 


John Brown, 




James Merrill, 


4 


John East, 


6 


Phineas Jones, 




John Perry, 




Jeremiah Riggs, 


3 


Joshua Woodbury, 




James Milk, 


16 


Thomas Haskell, 




Clu-istopher Strout, 


8 


RIoses Pearson, 


7 


Enoch Freeman, 


3 


John Coy, 




John Merrill, 




John Tyng, 




John Robinson, 


5 





SELECTMEN. 


467 


Stephen Randall, 


2 


Samuel Freeman, 


24 


John Snow, 


5 


Thomas Robison, 


2 


Joseph Thomson, 


6 


James Lunt, 


1 


William Cotton, 


13 


Ebenezer Preble, 


1 


George Berry, 


2 


Daniel Ilsley, 


2 


Samuel Skilling, 


2 


Woodbury Storer, 


9 


William Buckman, 


6 


John Thrasher, 


8 


Enoch Moody, 


3 


Nathaniel F. Fosdick, 


4 


Wm. Simonton, 


2 


Daniel Tucker, 


7 


John Waite, 


8 


Daniel Epes, 


S 


Isaac Ilsley, 


2 


Matthew Cobb, 


S 


Humphrey Merrill, 


15 


Robert Boyd, 


7 


David Strout, 


4 


Isaac Ilsley, 


2 


Joseph Mariner, 




Thomas Motley, 


1 


Wm. Slemmons, 


9 


Joseph H. Ingraham, 


11 


Ephraim Jones, 


4 


Joseph Titcomb, 


10 


Stephen Waite, 


4 


Joshua Rogers, 


6 


Samuel Cobb, 




John Mussey, 


8 


Benjamin Winslow, 




George Bradbury, 


8 


Nathaniel Carle, 


10 


Moses Lunt, 


1 


Jeremiah Pote, 




David Green, 


1 


Benjamin Mussey, 




Stephen Tukey, 


4 


John Bracket, 




Joseph Ilsley, 


1 


William Owen, 




Enoch Preble, 


4 


Nath. Wilson, 


2 


Samuel F. Hussey, 


1 


John Johnson, jr., 


2 


Josiah Dow, 


1 


Joseph Noyes, 


9 


Peter Warren, 


4 


Pearson Jones, 




Cotton B. Brooks, 


8 


Daniel Dole, 


8 


Robert Douglass, 


3 


Benjamin Titcomb, 


8 


John Hobart, 


8 


Richard Codman, 


2 


Stephen Longfellow, Jr. , 


1 


Solomon Haskell, 


2 


Isaac Adams, 


5 


Bracket Marston, 




Joshua Richardson, 


5 


Joseph McLellan, 




Benjamin Ilsley, 


5 


Samuel Freeman, 




Woodbury Storer, Jr., 


8 


Enoch Ilsley, 




Mark Harris, 


4 


Joshua Freeman, 




1822 to 1831. 




Stephen Hall, 




Isaac Adams, 


8 


Thomas Child, 


5 


Joshua Richardson, 


5 


Daniel Ilsley, James Frost, 


2 


Benjamm Ilsley, 




1786 to 1821. 




Nathaniel Mitchell, 




John Fox, 


3 


Mark Harris, 




Nathaniel Deering, 


2 


John L. Megguire, 




Peleg Wadsworth, 


4 


Joseph Walker, 





468 



RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. 



Robert Ilslcy, 
John VVilliamg, 
Jame3 C. Churcliill, 
William Webb, 
Alpheus Shaw, 
Jedediah Dow, 



John Patten, 


a 


Jonathan Dow, 


1 


Andrew L. Emerson, 


a 


Thomas Hammond, 


a 


Pudley Cammett, 


1 



TBOM 

1832 



1848 



James C. Churchill. 
Eliphalet Greeley. 
James B. Cahoon. 



4 
7 
4 
1 
S 
2 
MAYORS. 

FHOM 

Andrew L. Emerson. 1841 

'♦ Jonathan Dow. 1843 

1833 1834 John Anderson. 1849 

1834 1840 Levi Cutter. 

Isaac Adams, who was thirteen years Selectman, and seventeen years Repre- 
Bentative of the town, was bom at Byfield, Mass. ; he graduated at Dartmouth 
College, in the class of 1796, and came here in 1797, to take charge of a school. 
He was a man of strong powers of mind, and of elevated character, and if he had 
been educated to a profession, and had exerted his talents, would have made a 
distinguished figure in it. He soon left school keeping and opened a bookstore, and 
afterwards become the proprietor and editor of the Portland Gazette, wliich he 
conducted, in connection with his book business, many years. His popularity and 
influence may be inferred, from the length of time he was employed in responsible 
town offices; most of the time that ho held the office of Selectman, he was 
chairman of that board, and discharged its prijicipal duties. He never was married, 
and closed his life in this town, July 5, 1834, at the age of 61. 

Mr. Emerson resigned before the close of his first year, on account ill health, and 
Mr. Dow was chosen in his place. Mr. Emerson graduated at H. C, in 1820; 
was admitted to the Bar here, in 1824; married Mary, daughter of Asa Clapp, 
and died in 1835, leaving two children. 

TOWN CLERKS. 

FnOM TO 

1747 
1750 
1773 

1780 
1796 
1797 
1807 
1814 
1820 
1826 



FBOM 


TO 




1719 


1720 


Joshua Moody. 


1720 


1722 


Samuel Cobb. 


1723 


1725 


Joshua Moody. 


1726 




Peter Walton. 


1727 


1729 


Samuel Cobb. 


1730 




Moses Pearson. 


1731 


1732 


Samuel Moody. 


1733 




Moses Pearson. 


1734 


1743 


Samuel Moody. 


1744 




Joshua Moody. 


1745 


1746 


_^ Samuel Moody. 


FROM 


TO 




1832 


1841 


Joseph Pope. 


1842 




Albert Smith. 



1749 Moses Pearson. 

1772 Stephen Longfellow. 

1780 Nathaniel G. Moody. 

1796 Jolui Frothingham. 

Isaac Ilsley. 

1807 Stephen Patten. 

1813 Samuel Homer. 

1819 Oliver Bray. 

1825 Joseph Pope. 

1831 Charles B. Smith. 



CITY CLERKS. 

FUOM TO 

1843 Amos Nichols. 

1844 1849 William Boyd. 



REPRESENTATIVES. 



^9 



TOWN TREASURERS 



FROM 


TO 




FROM 


TO 




1719 


1720 


Samuel Moody. 


X748 


1754 


Enoch Freeman. 


1721 




Samuel Cobb. 


1755 




John Waito. 


1722 


1727 


Samuel Moody. 


1756 


1760 


James Mills. 


1728 


1729 


Benjamin Ingersoll, 


1761 


1765 


Benjamin Waite. 


1730 




John East. 


1766 


1767 


Ephraim Jones. 


1731 


1732 


Joshua Moody. 


1768 


1772 


James Milk. 


1733 


1734 


Henry Wheeler. 


1773 




Ephraim Jones. 


1735 




Moses Pearson. 


1774 




Stephen Waite 


1736 




Thomas Westbrook. 


1775 




Smith Cobb. 


1737 




James Gooding. 


1776 


1785 


John Waite. 


1733 




The Selectmen- 


1786 


1800 


Enoch Ilsley. 


1739 




Joseph Noyes. 


1801 


1807 


Lemuel Weeks. 


1740 


1742 


Ezekiel Cashing. 


1808 


1818 


Matthew Cobb. 


1743 




John Waite. 


1819 


1822 


Samuel Trask. 


1744 




Joshua I\Ioody. 


1823 


1825 


Joseph M. Gerrish. 


1745 




John Waito. 


1826 


1831 


Charles B. Smith. 






CITY TREASURERS. 


FROM 


TO 




FROM 


TO 




1832 


1841 


William Lord. 


1843 


1849 


William Lord. 


1842 




William Bloulton. 










REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL COURT. 


1719 William Scales, 


1743 Samuel Moody, 


1720 Samuel Moody, 


1744 Samuel Waldo, 


1721 None, 




1745 


Jabez Fox, 


1722 Dominicus Jordan, 


1746 Uncertain, 


1723 None, 




1747 Jabez 


Fox, 


1724 Uncertain, 


1748 Enoch Freeman, 


1725 


Major 


Moody, 


1749 Closes Pearson, 


1726 Samuel Moody,' 


1750 


'51 and '52 Jabez Fox, 


1727 to '29 None, 


1753 and '54 Jedediah Preble, 


1730 


to '33 Uncertain, 


1755 Charles Frost, (deceased.) 


1734 Dominicus Jordan, 




Enoch Freeman, 


1735 to '36 Uncertain, 


1756 


(C 


<« 


1737 Moses Pearson, 


1757 


to '61 Samuel Waldo, 




Phineas Jones, 


1762 and '( 


f)3 Francis Waldo, 


1738 Uncertain, 


1764 and '65 Samuel Waldo, 


1739 Phineas Jones, 


1766 


to '71 Jedediah Preble, 


1740 Moses Pearson, 


1772 and '73 William Tyng, 


1741 Joshua Bangs, 




Jedediah Preble, 


1742 Uncertain, 


1774 Enoch Freeman, 



470 



REPRESENTATIVES. 



REPRESENTATIVES TO THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 



1775 Samuel Freeiiiiin, 

1776 Jedediah Preble, 
Joseph Noyes, 
Samuel Freeman, 
John Waite, 

1777 Jedediah Preble, 
Joseph Noyes, 

1778 " 

Samuel Freeman, 

1779 None, 



1780 Jedediah Preble, 
Joseph Noyes, 
Stephen Hall, 

1781 Stephen Hall, 

1782 Joseph Noyes, 

1783 " 

1784 Joseph Noyes, Benj. Titcomb. 

1785 " •' 

1786 Joseph Noyes, J. Frotbingham. 



REPRESENTATIVES AT THE GENERAL COURT OF MASS 

1787 John Fox, 

1788 John Fox, 

1789 Daniel Davis, 

1790 John Fox, Daniel Davis. 

1791 John Fox, 

1792 John Fox, Daniel Davis. 



1793 Daniel Davis, Daniel Ilsley. 

1794 " " " " 

1795 Daniel Davis, Samuel Waldo. 

1796 Daniel Tucker, 

1797 " 

1798 Woodbury Storer, 

1799 " 

1800 " 

1801 Joseph Titcomb, 

1802 " " 

1803 Wm. Symmes, 

1804 Joseph Titcomb, W. Symmes, M. 

Cobb, D. Tucker. 

1805 Same, and Smith Cobb, 

1806 George Bradbury, Joseph Titcomb, 



1809 Same as 1808. 

1810 D. Tucker, J. Titcomb, M. Cobb, 
J. H. Ingraham, W. Jenka, Isaac 
Adams. 

1811 J. Titcomb, M. Cobb, Geo. Brad- 
bury, Jos. H. Ingraham, Isaac 

Adams, Enoch Preble. 

1812 Geo. Bradbury, Jos. 11. Ingraham, 

Isaac Adams, Enoch Preble, R. 
Hunnewell, J. Neal, Wm. Crab- 
tree. 

1813 Jos. H. Ingraham, Isaac Adams, E. 

Preble, J. Neal, S. Longfellow, 
Wm. Francis, Seward Porter. 

1814 Same, except E. Preble. 

1815 J. H. Ingraham, Isaac Adams, J. 

Neal, Seward Porter, H. Smith, 
Wm. B. Sewall. 

1816 Josiah Paine, Jacob Q,uincy,' Dan'l 

How, Robert Strong, P. Varnum, 
John Mussey, Jr. 



Joseph H. Ingraham, M. Cobb, 1817 Jos. H. Ingraham, Isaac Adams, 
Wm. Jenks. 1818 Isaac Adams, John Woodman. 

1807 Same as 1806. 1819 C. Fox, N. Kinsman, S. Baker, R. 

1808 Same, and Isaac Adams. Ilsley, Saml. Ayer, P. Varnum. 

REPRESENTATIVES TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MAINE. 

1820 Asa Clapp, Nicholas Emery, 1835 Alford Richardson, J. T. Walton, 

Simon Greenleaf. Josiah S. Little, Silvanus R. 

1821 Same as '20. Lyman. 

1822 Isaac Adams, Asa Clapp, Dudley 1836 Jas. Appleton, R. A. L. Codman, 

Todd. S. R. Lyman, Charles Fox 



■* COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. 471 

1823 Isaac Adams, Jos. Adams, Joshua 1837 Same as '.36. 

Richardson. 1838 S. R. Lyman, J. Appleton, O. B. 

1S24 Jos. Adams, Samuel Fessenden, Dorrance, Hosea Ilsley. 

Joshua Richardson. 1839 Elisha Trowbridge, Oliver B. Dor- 

1825 Isaac Adams, S. Longfellow, S. ranco, Wm. "P. Fessenden, S. 

Fessenden. R. Lyman. 

1826 Isaac Adams, Nath Mitchell, W. 1840 O. B. Dorrance, J. S. Little, S. R. 

Swan. Lyman, Joshua Dunn. 

1827 Isaac Adams,Wm. Swan, Andrew 1S41 James Todd, Harris C. Barnes, 

L. Emerson. H. B. Osgood, Nath'l Shaw. 

1828 Isaac Adams, Wm. Swan, Thos. 1842 H. B. Hart, J. S. Little, Thomas 

Dodge. Chadwick. 

1829 Same as '28, 1843 J. S. Little, Phinehas Barnes, T. 

1830 Mark Harris, Nath'l Mitchell, Chadwick. 

Francis O. J. Smith. 1844 Thomas Chadwick, Wm. P. Fes- 

1831 Jos. M. Gerrish, Moses Hall, C. enden, Phinehas Barnes. 

B. Smith, Wm. P. Fessenden., 1845 Same as '44. 

1832 Geo. W. Pierce, N. G. Jewett, 1746 Wm. Boyd, Thos. Chadwick, W. 

Chas. Q,. Clapp, William Kim- Goodenow. 

ball. 1847 Wm. Goodenow, Wm. Kmiball, 

1833 Charles Q. Clapp, N. G. Jewett, Phinehas Barnes. 

William Kimball, George W. 1848 Wm. Goodenow, E. Trowbridge, 
Pierce. Henry Carter. 

1834 James Brooks, Luther Jewett. J. 1849 Henry Carter, Rufus Horton, H. 

T. Walton, Eliphalet Greely. P. Deane. 

COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. 

This county was set off from the county of York, in the year 1760. 

The following are the names of the Towns in the county,. with the years in which 
they were respectively incorporated. 

Incor. 
1795 
1798 
1802 
1802 
1802 
1803 
1805 
1808 
1814 
1821 
1826 
1834 
1841 
1842 



JVa77i.es. 


Incor. 


Jfames. 


Scarborough, 


1658 


Poland, 


Falmouth, 


1708, 1658 


Otisfield, 


North Yarmouth, 


1713 


Baldwin, 


Brunswick, 


1738 


Minot, 


Harpswell, 


1758 


Danville, 


Windham, 


1762 


Raymond, 


Gorham, 


1764 


Harrison, 


Cape Elizabeth, 


1765 


Pownal, 


New Gloucester, 


1774 


Westbrook, 


Gray, 


1778 


Cumberland, 


Standish, 


1785 


Sebago, 


Portland, 


1786 


Naples, 


Freeport, 


1789 


Casco, 


Durham, 


1789 


Auburn, 


Bridgton, 


1794 





FROM 


TO 




FROM 


TO 


1776 


1781 


Solomon Lombard, 


1778 


1786 


1760 


1761 


John Minot. 


1782 


1803 


1760 


1764 


Ezekiel Cushing. 


1782 


1783 


1760 


1788 


Enoch Freeman. 


1784 


1799 


1760 


1771 


Edward Millikin. 


1789 


1804 


1763 


1781 


Jeremiah Powell. 


1798 


1811 


1766 


1767 


Alexander Rosa. 


1801 


1811 


1770 


1775 


Moses Pearson. 


1804 


1811 


1773 


1777 


Jonas JMason. 







473 COURTS. • 

Supreme judicial court. 

Previous to the year 1798, the records of this Court were kept in Boston, where 
the people were obliged to go, or send for executions, copies, &c. Since that period 
the records for this county have been kept in Portland. 

t COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 

David Mitchell. 
John Lewis. 
Jedediah Preble. 
Josiah Tliatcher. 
William Gorham. 
Stephen Longfellow. 
Robert Southgate. 
John Frothiugham. 

CIRCUIT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 

FROM TO FROM TO 

1812 1822 Benjamm Green. 1813 1822 William Widgery. 

1812 1822 Judah Dana. 

The Judges of the Common Pleas who were in office at the time of the separation 
of the State from Massachusetts in 1820, retained their offices until 1822, when a 
new Act was passed, re-organizing the Court, and establishing one Court of 
Common Pleas, for the whole State. Under this Act, EzeUiel Whitman of 
Portland, was appointed Chief Justice; Samuel E. Smith of Wiscasset, and David 
Perham of Bangor, associates. Another change was made in the system in 1839, 
by which the State was divided into Districts, and five Judges of equal rank were 
appointed. Judge Whitman received the appointment for the western District, 
which embraced the Counties of York, Cumberland, Oxford, and Franklin, and 
held it until his appointment in 1841, as Chief Justice of the Supremo Court, in 
the place of Chief Justice Weston. 

Daniel Goodenow of Alfred, succeeded in 1841, and held the office through his 
constitutional term of seven years, and was succeeded in 1848 by Jos. G. Cole of 
Paris, who is the present incumbent. 

Business of the Courts. To give a general and comparative view of the busi- 
ness done at these Courts, from the year 1776, I insert here the number of 
entries of civil actions in each year, as follows : 



Years. 


En. 


Years. 


En. 


Years. 


En. 


Years. 


En. 


1776 


9 


1790 


118 


1804 


1460 


1818 


12J4 


1777 


15 


1791 


168 


1805 


1467 


1819 


1333 


1778 


18 


1792 


167 


1806 


1678 


1820 


1396 


1779 


26 


1793 


166 


1807 


2422 


1823 


792 


1780 


20 


1794 


267 


1808 


2293 


1828 


1487 


1781 


49 


1795 


161 


1809 


1855 


1831 


888 


1782 


61 


1796 


217 


1810 


1193 


1834 


1597 


1783 


162 


1797 


851 


1811 


1187 


1837 


1674 


1784 


181 


1798 


468 


1812 


1422 


1840 


1389 


1785 


196 


1799 


593 


1813 


1115 


1844 


807 


1786 


143 


ISOO 


C84 


1814 


879 


1847 


916 


1787 


62 


1801 


867 


1815 


916 


1848 


1040 


1788 


52 


1802 


885 


1816 


1117 






1789 


77 


1803 


1277 


1817 


1537 







COUNTY OFFICERS. 



473 



PROBATE COURT. 

List of the Judges and Registers, with the time they eomiiienceil the duties of their 
Office, and the nuniher years in which they held the same. 



Judges. 

1760. Samuel Waldo, 11 years. 

1770. Enoch Freeman 13 " 

1782. Wm. Gorham 23 " 

1804. Sam'l Freeman 17 " 

1820. Albion K. Parris 3 " 
1822—1847 Barrett Potter, 



1847 



1836—1838 
1838-1839 



FROM 

1760 
1768 
1776 
1809 
1811 
1812 
1822 

FROM 

1760 
1775 



1820 
1836 
1838 
1839 

FROM 

1760 
1773 
1776 
1777 

1803 
1804 
1824 



1768 
177.5 
1809 
1811 
1812 
1821 
1829 



1775 
1811 

1836 
1838 
1839 
1841 



1773 
1776 
1777 

1803 
1804 
1824 
1832 



Josiah Pierce, 

Registers. 
N. G. Jewett, 
Alvah Sweetsir, 



Moses Pearson. 
William Tyng. 
John VVaile. 
Richard Hunnewell. 
Joseph Foxcroft 
Richard Hunnewell. 
Joseph E. Foxcroft. 



Stephen Longfellow. 
Samuel Freeman. 



Registers. 

1760. J. Stockbridge, 

1761. S. Longfellow 
1775. Sam'l Freeman 
1804. J. Frothingham 
1815. H. Southgate 
1839—1840 John L. Megguire, 
1840 — 1841 John Appleton, 
1841—1842 Alvah Sweetsir, 
1842 1845 John Appleton, 
1845 1849 C. C. Tobie, 
1849 Freeman Bradford. 



2 years, 


15 


" 


30 


<< 


12 


<c 


21 


<( 



SHERIFFS. 

FROM 

1830 
1831 
1838 
1839 
1840 
1842 
1845 

CLERKS. 

FROM 

1811 

1812 



1831 Noah Hinklej. 

1838 Josiah Dunn. 

1839 Joseph Smith. 

1840 Josiah Dunn. 
1842 Joseph Smith. 

1845 Nathan L. Woodbury. 
Wendell P. Smith. 



1812 Joseph C. Boyd, 
1820 Samuel Freeman. 



UNDER AUTHORITY OF MAINE. 

Wm. T. Vaughan. 1841 1842 Charles Fox. 

Charles Cobb. 1842 1848 Charles Cobb. 

Charles Fox. 1848 Charles C. Harmon. 

Charles Cobb. 

COUNTY TREASURERS. 

FROM TO 

1832 1834 Thomas Todd. 

1834 1840 Mark Harris. 

1840 1841 Royal Lincoln. 

1841 1842 Charles B. Smith 

1842 1848 John W. Smith. 
1848 Henry C. Babb. 



James Milk. 
Ephraim Jones. 
Enoch Moody. 
Joseph McLellan. 
Horatio Southgate. 
Elias Merrill. 
Mark Harris. 
60 



FROM 


TO 




1804 


1824 


Elias Merrill. 


1825 


1841 


Samuel Small. 


1841 




Wm. Ross. 



474 MUNICIPAL COURT, 

REGISTERS OF DEEDS. 

FROM TO 

1760 1788 Enoch Freeman. 
1788 1790 The Clerk, ex officio. 
1790 1804 Isaac Ilsley. 

A Municipal Court was established by act of the Legislature for the city of 
Portland, in 1825, and went into operation June 1, of that year. Luther 
Fitch, Esq. was the first Judge, and has continued to hold the office, by repeated 
appointments, to the present time. A. W. True is the Recorder and Clerk of this 
Court. Its jurisdiction is similar to that of Justices of the Peace, and is exclusive 
in such matters within the city ; and has cognizance of all violations of the By-Laws 
or Ordinances of the city. The salary of the Judge is $700 a year; that of the 
Recorder, $500. The Recorders of this Court have been, Wm. II. Wood, Wm, 
H. Codman, Charles B. Smith and A. W. True. 



INDEX. 



Adams, Daniel 239 

Alarm of an attack, 336 

Academy, 877, 381 

Academy scholars, 382 

Adams, Capt. vessel and crew lost, 389 
Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad, 461 
Agreement of Proprietors, 77 

Allen, Rev. Benj. 80, 81, 89, 154 

Atherton, Abel W., Charles 90 

Appleton, Rev. Nathl. 40, 107, 302 

Attestation of Ministers in Maine, 106 
Albee, Obadiah, tried, 143 

Appleton, Rev. Jesse 393 

Appendix, 419 

Alger, Andrew 434 

Atheneum, 441 

Atkinson, Rev. Jonathan 370 

Agriculture, board of 381 

Arminianism, 297, 395 

Aliset, John 428 

Armstrong, John 60, 165 

Armstrong and others, riot 331 

Alsop, Thomas 436 

Androscoggin & Ken'bec Railroad, 462 
Auction room, 354 

Abyssinian Society, 425 

Babbitt, Erasmus 24 

Brackett, Zachariah 55 

Barbour, John 57 

Barbour, Hugh & Joseph B. 57 

Blake, Susannah 90 

Brackett, Joshua 125, 365 
Bartlett, Anthony 125, 357, 365, 428 

Bad times, 146 

Braddock's defeat, 161, 162 

Bayley, 170 

Baptisms, 179, 180 

Barnard, Gov. 182 

Bangs, Mrs. died, 191 

Bramhall, Mr. 191 

Bangs Joshua and Family, 194 

Bradish, Major David 227, 322 

Brackett, Capt. Joshua 229, 365 

Baggaduce expedition, 241, 347 
Bradbury, Theoph. and family, 243, 304 



■ Bradbury, Rowland 246 

Brackett, ftlercy 323 

Brackett's swamp, 333 

Brackett, Anthony Jr, 335 

Bass, Rev. Edward ' 357 

Barr, Alexander, ^-^ 359 

Brackett's dower, 365 

Bradley, Rev. Caleb 374, 379 

Barracks, 479 

Bankruptcies, 387 
Bramhall, George 428, 430, 433 

Brackett, Thomas 428, 429 

Battle with the Indians, 1689, 433 

Brackett, Seth, Anthony, Jr. 436 
Baptist societies, 1st and 2ud, 447, 448 

Banks, 453 

Belcher, Jonathan 75 

Beautineau, Deacon 85 

Bell for meeting house, l76 

Bennington battle, 345 

Bretton, Philip Jr. 431 

Berry, Thomas 433 

Benevolent societies, 455 

Bird hung, 365 

Bible society, 399 

Blithe, Capt. Samuel 403 

Boston News Letter, 40 

Boston Gazette, 40 

Block houses, 112 

Bolton, Wm. captured, 130 

Boston town house burnt, 131 

Brockwell, Rev. Charles 155, 156 
Brooks, Rev. Edward 199, 214, 320, 324 

Brooks, Cotton B. 199 

Brooks, Peter C. 199 
Browne, Rev. Thos. 199, 201, 314, 374 

Boston mvested, 214 

Boston, port shut 224 

Boston fortified, 228 

" evacuated, 133 

Browne, Rev. John 314 

Books read by S. Deane, 331 

Brown street, 356 

Blossommg of trees, &c. 268, 381 

Bowdoiii College, 370, 380 

" " 1st Coinm. 387 



476 



INDEX. 



B«ivd, Roben 3S6. 

Boyd, Joseph C. 

Boxer and Enterprise, 

Bowdoin, Peter 

B<)atiaean, Stephen 

Bruwne, Thomas, 1689, 

Bosrwell, George 

Boxion, James 

Buell, Rev. Samne! 

Bamet, CapL killed. 

Business, 138, 

Burna], Job 

Butler. John 191,207. 

Bunker hill, battle 229. 

Pnildings erected, 253, 254, 25t», 



Butts, 5Ir. 

Burrows, Capt. \V illinm 
Burroughs, George 
Burton, Thomas 
Bnckfield Branch Railroad, 
Brvant, Jooailian 



429 



m 



,401 
401 
403 
431 
431 
434 
436 
57 
103 
133 
146 
146 
401 
338 

259, 
408 
371 
403 
437 
433 
462 
330 



Channcy, Rev. Isaac 40 
Cailender, Rev. Eliis and Elisha 40 

Chapman , John 54 
Crabtree. Agreen, Wm. Eieazer 90. 91 

Chauncv, Rev. Charles 98, 109, 297 

Calvinism, 108, 395 

Captives, returned 130 

Cape Elizabeth, 137 

Character of the people. 138 

Clark, Rev. Ephraim 160, 166 

Catechising Children, 164 

Canada Expedition, 175 

Canada taken, 185 

Crafi. Jona. llO 

Clapp, Pres. Thomas 212 

Chorlestowa burnt, 229 

Chase, Josiah 239 

Clark, Jonas 253, 337 

Chandler, Rev. Samuel 321 

Chaises at funeml, 3-26 

Chadwick, Rev. Benjamin 345 

Chase, Capt Moses drowned, 359 

Chape!. Coug'al Society, 362, 391, 400 

Candidates lor colleague, 387, 384 

Chase, Salmon 388 

Cary, Rev. Samuel 394 

Casco settled, 426 

Clark, Thaddeus 42S, 432, 435 

Charity Fund, 1st Parish, 456 

Checkiey, Rev. Samuel 39 

Clerjvmeu aged, 295 

Cleeves. George 426, 430 

Clerks of town and city, 467 

Clerks of Court, ' 473 

Codman, Rev. John 394 

Cooper Claim, 429 

Crocker, Edward 436 



Chipman. John 
Chicanecto Fort. 
Child. Thomas 
Christian Societies, 
Court business, entries. 
Commercial Statistics, 
Colton, John 
Cook, William 
Cook Elisha 
Cobb, Samue! 
Cobb, Joseph 
Collier, Richard 
Common land, qaantitv 



20. 213, 323 
161 
217, 261 
448 
472 
457 
41 
41 
42 
53. 58. 213. 215 
53 
55. 56 
74 
Court in Falmouth, established, 82 

Codman, Sarah 95. 368 

Com scarce, price, 85, 87, 96, 133. 196. 
221. 226. 229, 244), 24l 
Com Mills, 86, 132, 348 

Cohnan, Rev. Benj. 40, 98, 131 

Cooper, Rev. Wm. 40, 98 

Court. Superior 93. 330 

Court. Circuit, U. S. 380 

Court of Common Pleas, 383 

Convention of the Clersy, 1742, 105 
Controversy with Mr. VVhitetield, l07 
Comet, 113, 179, 326, 328 

Cooper, Rev. Samuel 123 

Cox. John 129. 248 

Cox, Joseph 129, 170. 2<)7 

Cox, Josiah 129 

Contribution, 137 

Commerce, 138, 204, 388, 457 

Co«OD, Deacon Wm. 152, 215, 325 
Codman, Richard 177, 368 

Cofin, Dr. 187,207,317- 

Cook, Mr., died, 187 

Codman, ilrs. died, 191 

Collea^e, 195, 199 

Cofin,"Dr. Nath'l Jr., familv, 200, 404- 
Conant, ' 201 

Cotton, John 211. 213. 307 

Court House, 224, 256, 334, 358 

Consress, 225 

Couison, Thomas 226, 327 

Corawallis defeated, 246 

Cold, 247, 259, 316, 318, 349. 3-55. 356 
358, 361 
Codmam, Stephen 253 

College Memoranda. 305. 380 

Coffin, Rev. Paul 313 

Cobb, Mrs. Eben. 321 

Cobb, James 327 

Conn dinner, 330 

Coffin. Mrs. funeral, 331 

County Convention, 335, 336 

Convention on Separation, 359 

Crops, 366 

Commercial embarrassments, 388, 393 

dimming. Lt. Thos. 56 



Churrh of Falmonth established 



60 



INDEX. 



477 



Church covenant, 63 

Cutter Rev. Ammi R. 77, 78, 82 

Church in Cape Elizabeth, 81,83, 161 
Currency, 83, 134, 142, 146, 202, 239, 
317, .34t;, .349 
Church members, 1st Parish, 102, 160 
Chute, Thomas 112 

Church confessions, 115 

Cutter, Capt., dead, 122 

Cushing, Col. E., and family, 147, 20.5 
Cushnoc, 156 

Customs, 138, 1.57 

Cumberland county, 183, ISo, 189, 203 
" " officers, 186,471 

Chute, Curtis, killed, 211 

Cnmniing, Thomas 222, 375 

Church records, 305, 401 

Cushing, Charles 313 

Church, extra admission, 334 

Cumberland Bar, 3"i9 

Church, Maj. Beuj. 433 

Churches in Portland, 443 



Danford, John and Nathaniel 47 

Davis, William 50 

Davies, Pres. Samuel 301 

Davis, Daniel 352 

Davis, Ebenezer 356 

Davies, Charles S. 403 

Danforth, Gov. Thomas 430 

Davis, Silvanus 431, 4-35 

■ Dearborn, Dr. Benjamin 23, 155 

Deacons, 64, 115, 151, 216, 248, 325, 

350 
Deering, Mrs. killed, 134 

Dress, stvle of, 135, 140 

Dwelling' houses, 137, 139. 367, 374, 
377, 379, 380 3S1, 395, 39S, 439 
Dearborn, Dr. Benjamin 23, 155 

Deane, Rev. Samuel 199, 20!, 209, 289 
Deane, S. house, 205, 293, 303, .336 



Deatlis, noticed in Journal, 




263 


Deane, Walter 




289 


Deane's theology. 




297 


Deane's Diary 


299, 


, 301 


Deaths and Marriages, 




299 


Dress, articles of 




306 


Deane's ordination, 




306 


" wedding. 


209, 


318 


Deane, John 




335 


Deane's letter, on Pointer's 


3 plan, 


339 


Deering, Nathaniel 




372 


Drew, Joseph executed. 




394 


Deane, Eunice died. 




402 


Deane's, Samuel etfects. 




404 


Division of the town. 


258, 


, 353 


Diarj' concluded, 




406 


Dolliver, Peter 




24 


Dolover, John 




52 


Doughty, James 


56, 


, 153 



Donnivan, John 56 
Drought, 136, 171, 190, 193, 344 

Dole, Daniel 349 

Dole, Moses 364 

Duguid, Mary 29 

Dummer, Gov. William 45 

Duncan, George W. 90 
Dunslan, Parish 115, 116, -345, 360 

Duguid, Elizabeth 152 

Dunlap, Rev. Mr. 186 

Durham ordination, 374 

Dupee, Dr. Henry 399 -> 

Dysentary, 239 

Earthquake, 66, 88, 163, 189, 207, 216, 

257 
East, John 85 

Fxlwards, Jonathan 108 

Eaton, Rev. Samuel 201 

Eaton, Rev. Elisha 202 

Edgar, Mr. 253 

Earwig, 320 

Exchange, 440 

Education and schools, 441 

Election sermon, 159 

Ecclesiastical council atPurpooduc, 160, 

161, 166 
Ecclesiastical council at Gorham, 173, 

174, 200 
Ecclesiastical Council at N. Yar- 
mouth, 209, 214, 320 
Expenses, 1760, 187 
Elliott, Rev. Andrew 239 
Epes, Daniel 307 
Edgecomb claim and title, 328 
Ecclesiastical council at W^oolwich, 344 
Ecclesiastical council at Portland, 400 
Enterprise and Boxer, 403 
Ebens, Edward 433 
Elkins, Elizabeth 25 
Epidemic, 82 
EJvins, Rev. Richard, 115 
Elliott, killed, 127 
Episcopacy, 171,200,437 
Episcopal church, 200, 255, 259, 361 437, 

445 
Erving, Capt. 200 

Eclipse, 348, 867, 387 

Ellis, Rev. Jonathan 364 

Erving, Dr. Shirley 369*« 

Ely, Rev. Mr. 386 

Faraham, Daniel 20 

Fast, 81, 82, 84, 88, 94, lOl. 103, 116, 
125, 126, 176, 193, 218 
Famine threatened, 35, 88. 06, 1.51 , 238, 
240, 241, 245 
Fayerweather, Rev. Samuel 149 

Fairfield, Rev. John 193 

Falmouth burnt, 230 



478 



INDEX. 



Falmouth named, 429 
Falmouth destroyed by Indians, 429, 435 

Fessenden, Benjamin 41 

Freshet Saco river, 95 

French fleet scattered, 126 

" " captured, 130 

Freeman, J. and family, 135, 329, 403 

Freshet, 146 

French war, 162 

Flett, John 183, 184 

Freeman, Patience 327 

Free street, 356 
Freemam, Samuel, 358, memoir, 421 

Freeman, Enoch and family, 363 

Freeman, Sally died 386 

Freeman, Lois 403 

Freeze, James 433 

Free will Baptist Society, 448 

Flint, Henry 41 

Fitch, John 46 

Fitch, Jabez 131 



Fire, 



151, 184, 190, 209, 259, 393 



Fire in Boston, 
Fire, town burnt. 
Fire in Portsmouth, 
First Parish, 
Forbes, Eli 

Foxcroft, Rev. Thomas 
Fort Richmond, 
Fort George, 

" " burnt, 
Frost, Charles 
Fox, Jabez 
Fort Wm. Henry, 
Fort Edward, 
Fox, Ann 
Fort in Portland, 
Foxcroft, Rev. Samuel 
Frothingham, John 
Forbes, Lucy 
Fosdick, Nathaniel F. 
Fotheringham, John 
Fox, John 



321 

339 

404 

443 

25 

40 203 

43 

65 

83, 86 

92, 164 

119, 154, 159 

172 

172 

177 

182 

203, 308, 309 

240, 472, 473 

25, 244 

262 

366 

371 



Fort Loyal, 429, 432, 434, taken 435 

Fulton, James 57 

Fuller, Rev. Timothy 204, 308 

Funeral ceremonies, 329 

Flynt, Henry 107 

Frye, Gen. Joseph 342 

Gay, Dr. Eben. 32 
Garrison in Falmouth, 41,49,80,113,127 

Gamblin, Benjamin 73 

Gates' victory, 345 

Gage, Isaac 358 

Gee, Rev. Joshua 40 

George's Fort, 44, 177 

Greeley, Phillip 124 

George II, died, 188 

General Court, 224 



Genoical Dictionary, 193, 296, 360 

Greenwood's house, 335 

Green, Daniel 344 

Greele's tavern, 351 

Gregg, Rev. William 375, 379 

Greuson, Robert 434 

Gilman, Rev. Tristram 2l6, 327 

Gilman, Gov. 403 

Goldthwait, Philip 21 

Gooding, James 85, 246 

Gorham, 173, 174, 202 

Gooding, Arthur Sexton, 181, 182, 191 

Goodwin tried for murder, 221 

Goodwin, John and family, 356 

Goddard, Dr. Thatcher 383 ■ 

Gorham, Wm. 385 

Gorges, Sir Ferdinando 427 

Gustin, John 56, 58, 431 

Gyles, Capt. John 65 



Harris, Rev. Henry 

Haskell, Thomas and family, 50, 

Hall, Eben. and Hatevil, 

Hall, father died 

Hawke, Admiral 

Halifax fort, 

Havanna taken. 

Harvard Hall burnt, 197, 

Harper, Wm. 

Hale, Rev. Moses 

Hall, Stephen 333, 

Haymarket row burnt, 

Harvey, Elizabeth 

Hall, Martha C. 

Hemmenway, Rev. Moses 180, Sl4, 

Herrick, Rev. Jacob 

Hill, Rev. Sanmel 

Hicks, Mrs. killed 

Hicks, Lemuel 

Hicks, Joseph 

Hilliard, Timothy 

Hitchcock, Rev. Gad 

High street Church 

Hovey, Rev. Ivory 

Hodge, Nicholas 

Hovey, Rev. John 

Holyoke, Rev. Elizur 

Hodge, Ann 

Hooper, Rev. Wm. 

Holland, Wm. 

Holyoke, President 

Howell, Arthur 222, 

Hopkins, Thomas 

Hopkins, James D. 

Hollis Hall named, 

Holt, Moses Jr. 

Hooper, Joseph 

Homes, David 

Hornby, James 

Hope, James 



251,329 



95, 106, 



177, 

200, 



40 
112 

56 
127 
132 
156 
193 
302 
247 
321 
372 
393 
429 
456 
373 
374 

21 
138 
133 
133 
380 
314 
444 

21 
430 
101 
157 
430 
212 
216 
217 
311 
252 
252 
302 
331 
350 
433 

19 
210 



INDEX. 



479 



Hunt, John 


22 


Hutchinson, Gov. 


206 


Hurricane, 


211 


Hutchinson's letters, 


223 


Hugenots, 


431 



Innoculation, 202, 237 

Innholders and traders, 367 

Insurance companies, 458 

Ingrahani, Joseph H. 250, 353 

Ingersoll, John and family, 54, 431 

Ingersoll, Elisha 54 

Ingersoll, George, Daniel, Benjamin, 54, 

431 
Ilsley, Isaac 90, 128, 145, 245, 334 
Ilsley, Daniel 128, wife died, 402 

Ilsley, Enoch 128, 319, 399 

Ilsley, Jonathan 128 

Ice, extensive 147, 148, 321 

Ingersoll, Joanna died, 327 

Ingersoll, Samuel 431 

Index, 475 

Indian treaty, 45 

Indian treaty ratified, 46, 75, 149 

Indian depredations, 41, 48, 129, 146, 

160, 170 
Irish immigrants, 60, 165 

Indian alarms, 81, 85, 119, 120, 125, 

143, 165 
Irish troubles at Cape Elizabeth, 83 
Indian war, 120, 123, 429, 432 

Indian treaty, 1749, 136, 149, 154 

Indians killed at Wiscasset, 141, 142 
Indian claims and eloquence, 149, 153 
Indian names in Falmouth, 429 

Jail, 214 

Jackson, Col. Henry 348, 

Jefferds, Rev. Samuel 45, 63, 148 

Jebucta, Halifax 126, 

Jeffries & Donuell, Bath case, 209 

Jewett, Caleb 251, 354 

Jewell's Island, 304 

Jewett, James C. 384 

Jean, Augustine (John Gustin) 432 

Jordan, Samuel 21,52 

Jordan, Olive 21 

Jordan, Domiuicus 53 

Jones, Phineas 55 

Jones, Stephen 112, 121, 127 

Jones, Ephraim 112, 335 

Jones, Jabez 112 

Jordan's wife drowned, 122 

Jones, Pearson 245 

Johonnot, Samuel C. 355 

Johnson, Rev. Alfred 381 

Judges, Superior Court, 99,192,209,319 
Court of U. S., 380 

Court of Com. Pleas, 383 

of Probate, 473 



Kellogg, Rev. Elijah, 261, 361, 373, 400 
Kennebeck & Portland Railroad, 483 

King, Edward, 57 

King, Richard 226 

Kirkland, Rev. J. 7, 396 

Larrabee, Benjamin 54, 55 

Lake George battle, 162 
Langdon, Rev. Sam'l 193, 314, 321, 524 

Lawyers at court, 209 

Laneton, Rev. Samuel 321 

Larrabee, Catharine 334 

Lancaster, Rev. Thomas 350 

Lancaster, Sewall 402 

Lawrence, Capt. Robert 431, 436 

Lewis, Job 53 

Lectures, evening first 109, 137 

-leavitt. Rev. Dudley 122 

Lexington battle, 226, 336 

Livermore, Samuel 20 

Little, Daniel Rev. ^ 146 

Lisbon destroyed, 164 

Lincoln County, 183 

Little, Paul 191, 330 

Lightning struck, 322 

Light house, 366 

Limington ordination, 370 

Lincoln, Daniel W. 389 

Lovell's battle, 43 

Lovitt, Jonathan 52 

Loron, Indian 76 

Loring, Nicholas Rev. 85, 196 
Longfellow, S. and family, 118,150, 345 

Louisburg taken, 119, 176 

Lowell, Abner 129, 130 

Lombard, Rev. Solomon 145, 310 

Lowell, Rev. John 212 

Longfellow, S. Jr., 245,384 

Lowell, Jolui 301 

Lock, Rev. Samuel 327 

Lumber operations, 85 

Lumber, 204 

Lunt, Benjamin 323, 357 

Lunt, Wm. 322 

Lunt, Joseph 357 

Lunt, James 357 

Lunt, Amos 357 

Lyman, Rev. Isaac 142, 327 

Lyde, George 217 



Mather, Increase 
Mather, Cotton, 
Machigonne, 
McClanthan, Rev. 
Mayhew, Rev. Jona. 
Mail and Post office, 
Masquerene, Col. Paul 
Manners and Customs, 
Mayo, Eben 
McLean, Allen 



40, 42 

40,42 

50, 427 

84,85 

109, 298, 319 

140, 255, 422 

155, 156 

138, 167 

182, 368 

183, 184 



480 



INDEX. 



Marriages, 187, 299 

Marty 11, Rev. John 212 

McLellan, Bryce and family 233, 329 

McLeilan, Jos. Hugh, Win. 2'S3, 212 

Marsh, Thomas 303 

McClintock, Rev. 327 

Marble, Daniel 332 

Mail Stage, 361 

McKeene, Rev. Joseph 380, 390 

Marriage fees, 383 

Martin, William 405 

McWorth, Arthur 427 
Meeting house, 50, 60, 73, 86, 92, 178, 
179, 380, .385 

Means, Robert 60, 165 

Meeting house, Cape Elizabeth, 80 

Merrill, James 90 

Mercier, Andrew L. , 40 

Menis taken, 126 

Means, Thomas 165 
Measles, 178, 183, 222, 250 

Meeting house, new, 197 

Meserve, George 317 

Merchants, broken, 387 

Methodists, 449 

Mechanic Association, 456 

Mason, John 433 

Mayors of the city, 467 
Mills erected, 51, 71, 86, 132 

Mills, James 56 

Millett, Thomas and John 100 

Ministers' Convention, Boston, 104, 110 
Ministers in Maine, 1743, 
Mitchell, Deacon Jacob 
Ministers' meeting. 
Miller, Rev. John 
Milk, Deacon James 
Minot, Thomas, John, 
Milk, James' wife, 
Millimore, Rev, Wm. 
Mitten, Michael 
Miuibtry at large, 
Mortimer, 
Morrill, Rev. Moses 
Moody, Samuel, 55, death. 
Moody, Rev. Samuel 
Moody, Joshua 
Moody, Dr. Samuel 
Monntfort, Edmund 
Moody, Rev. Joseph 
Moody, Enoch 
Morse, Rev. John 

Mob, 20;j, 207, 213, 214, 220, 317, 319 

Money scarce, 210 

Moody, Nathaniel Green 216 

Moody, Rev. Silas 219 

Moose killed, 221 

Movvat, Capt. taken 337 

Morals of early settlers, 436 
Mtmjoy , George 's family 1 9, 59 , 428 , 43 1 



106, 111 

no. 

116 

194 

222, 332 

315 

326 

400 

427 

453 

19 

21 

69 

63, 131 

70, 132 

70, 178 

70, 87 

78 

90, 235, 345 

160 



Munjoy's hill, title to 
Mussey, Benjamin 
Murray, Rev. John 
Munjoy's hill, fence 
Mussey, John 
Mussey, Daniel 
Muiijoy, John 



58 
90, 328 
198, 221, 260 
249 
345 
356 
429 



Nash, Rev. Samuel 229, 339, 350 

New England Courant, 40 

Newinarch, Rev. John 63 

New Style, 149 

New Casco Parish established, 152, 204, 

315 
Neck destroyed, 1775, 230, 339 

Newspapers, 254, 443 

New England Farmer, 293, 296 

Niagara fort, 180 

Nichols, Rev. I. 294, 395, married, 299 
" " " ordained, 396 

Nichols, John 330 

Noyes, Joseph 117, and family, 158, 374 
Noyes, Josiah 117, 1.58 

North Yarmouth, 209, 214 

Norwood, Dr. 342,343* 

Noyes, Rev. Jeremiah 389 



Oxnard, Thomas 

Oxnard, Edward 229, 

Owen, John, lawyer. 

Old Tenor, value of 

Owen, Samuel, died, 

Ordhiation of Mr. Smith, 
" Mr. Deane, 

" Samuel Eaton, 

" John Tompson, 

" Mr. Payson, 

" Mr. Nichols, 

Benj. Sawyer, 



Ogilvie, Mr. 
Oulton, John 



217, 377 

377, 378 

73 

127 

331 

63 

201, 306 

201, 307 

324 

392 

396 

398 

398 

55 

19, 434 

72 

79 

186 

209 

251 

256, 358 



Palmer, 

Plan of Munjoy's hill. 
Paper mill. 
Psalm Books, new 
Parker, Judge Wm. 
Plague in Phil, and New York, 
Parker, Frederick 

Payson, Rev. Edward 2,92^362, 38l, 
387, 396 
" " " ordained, 392 

Parsonage, trial for 326 

Parkman, Samut I 327 

Parsons, Theophilus, 333, 337 

Pagan, Robert 375 

Parish, 3rd 391,444 

Parker, John and family 436 

Parishes, 1st and 2d 443 

Petition for incorporation, 49 



INDEX. 



4S1 



Presbyteriiins, 83 

Prentice, Rev. Thomas 89 

Pearson, Moses 119, 189, 239, 846 



Peinaquid fort, 6ii 


129, 131 


Peace, 133, 


197, 248 


Pejepscot proprietors, 


157 


Preble, Jonathan 


175 


Pearsontown, 


119, 183 


Pepperell, Sir Win. 


133 


Peak's Island, 


147, 315 


Preble, Gen. Jedediah 198,201 


,251,336 




355 


Preble, John 


218 


Preble family. 


252 


Preble, Enoch 


299 


Pearson, Mrs. died. 


320 


Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer 


330 


Pennell, Matthew 


347 


Peace rejoicing. 


353 


Peabody, Mehitable 


359 


Preble, Mehitable died 


387 


Preble, Com. Edward 


390 


Pride, Joseph 


51 


Pike, Solomon 


52 


Pierce, Robert 


53 


Pierpont, Jonathan 


59 


Prince, Rev. Thomas 


40, 107 


Prices, 


132 


Pidgeons, 


115, 149 


Phips, Spencer 


173 


Phinney, Col. 


228 


Privateers, 


237, 343 


Pietas et Gratulatio, 




Pitchwood Hill, 


293, 295 


Pike, Timothy 


304 


Pillory, 


319 


Phillips, John 


428 


Population, 49, 60,137,152,18 


1,203,438 


Pond Cove, 


52 


Powell, John 


58 


Powell, Jeremiah 53, 147, 


254, 324 


Proctor, Samuel and family 


56, 204 


Proprietors, old and new 58, 


67 70, 77 


Proprietors' 1st meeting. 


73 


Povvnal, Gov. 


179, 183 


Pownal fort. 


179 


Poetry by Mr. Smith, 


181 


Provisions, price of 


241 


Post office, 140, 


255, 422 


Portland incorporated. 


258 


Portland, description of 


377 


Potatoe planting. 


318 


Pope and Devil, 


329 


Poland, ]\Irs. 


357 


Pote, Jeremiah and family 


375 


Poplar trees. 


381 


Portland Benevolent Society, 


383 


Portland in 1820 and 1848, 


438 


" mortality and population, 438 


" Finances and property 


439 


61 



Probate Judges and Registers, 473 

Portland Company, 464 

Portland Steam packet Co., 465 

Pullen, John 19 

Purpoodock, 46, 158, 190, 161, 166, 185 
Plymouth Patent, 153, 157 

Quakers, 94,110,144,247,261,847,446 
Quebec taken, 180, 182 

Rnmsdell, James 436 

Rail roads, 46q 

Reddin, Thomas 52 

Revival of religion, 66, 102 

" its results, 105, 108 

Religious opinions, 297 

Refugees, 838 

Religion and morals of the early 

settlers, 436 
Representatives of Falmouth and 

Portland, 469 

Registers of Deed, 474 

Riggs, Jeremiah and family 50 

Rideout, Nicholas and Mary 89 

Richardson, Rev. Gideon 153 

Richmond, John M. 188 

Riggs, Wheeler 242 

Road from Falmouth, west, 48 

Robinson, John 52 

Rounds, Mark and sons 56 

Rogers, Rev. John 63, 131 

Roberts died, 127, 145 

Ross, Capt. Alexander 152, 215, 325 

Rollins, Samuel 249 

Roach, Thomas 249 

Robison, Thomas 252 

Rosa, Elizabeth 375 

Row, Giles 435 

Ross, James 436 

Roman Catholic Society, 452 

Russell Chambers, Judge 212 

Rumford, countess of 379 

Sargent, Dr. Nathaniel 23, 156 - 

Sanders, Thomas and family 24, 44, 223 

Sargent, Paul Dudley 

Sanders, Lucy 

Small pox, 40, 41, 148, 172, 187 



Sabbath contributions, 36, 293, 

Sawyer, Isaac, Jacob, Job, John, 

Savage, Isaac 

Scales, Matthew and Wm. 

St. George's fort. 

Saw mill, 

Saccarappa falls, 

Standish, 

Sallonstall, Judge died 

Sanders, Thomas 

Scalp money. 



24 

25 

198, 

256 

311 

50 

51 

66 

44, 65 

71 

71 

119, 183 

170 

170 

173 



482 



INDEX. 



Sawyer, Edward, sexton, 181, 182 

Stamp Act, 206, 208, 209, 319, 321 
Savage, Arthur 207, 217 

Sanford, Capt. Thomas and family 230 
Salaries of the minister.s, 241, 247, 255, 
257, '261, 293, 343, 359 
Separation of Maine, 257 

Stamps, 317 

Sampson, Jonathan tried for murder 329 
Shattuck, Moses 118, 330 



Stage coach first established 
Sawyer, Rev. Benjamin 
Sewall, David 
Sewall, Rev. Joseph 
Slemmons, Wm. 
Sweat, Joseph 
Sewall, Stephen 
Steeple raised, 
Sleigh ride, 
Sherbourne, Henry 
Stephenson, John 



361 

398 

20 

39, 43, 78, 219 

90 

124 

187, 306, 290 

190 

195 

212 

253, 829, 345 



Second Parish m Portland, 260, 261,361, 

443 
Seasons and weather, 265 

Stevens, Rev. Benjamin 321, 324 

Sweetsir, Capt. Wm. 325 

Stephenson, Tabitha 845 

Swett, Rev. Moses 359 

Separation of State, 859 

Settlers in 1675, 429 

Second Unitarian Society, 444 

Swedenborgian Society, 451 

Seamen's Chapel, 452 

Streets, 461 

Selectmen of Falmouth & Portland, 466 
Steam engines, 465 

Sheriffs of Cumberland, 473 

Smith, Thomas, sen. 7, 65, 102 

" " Rev., esiate, 16 

" " " house, 48 

Smith, John 16, l55, 174, 183, 215, 223, 

334 
Smith, Rev. Thos. invited to settle, 48, 

61 
Skillings, Benjamin, Thomas, John 45 
Shirley, Wm. Gov. 99, 151, 154, 169, 

219 
Sickness, 86, 87, 133, 145, 151, 168, 
177, 185, 223, 2.33 
Smith, Thomas, Jr. 141, 170, 231 

Smith, Wm. died 157 

Shipwreck, 177 

Skilling, Benjamin 202, 307 

Smith's sermon to seamen, 229 

Smith, David 253, 386 

Smith, Rev. Thomas' last sermon, 254 
Singing, 256, 316 

Scrip story, 308 

Stickney, Jacob oOS 

Smith, Rev. llezekiah 322 



Scriptures first read, 325 

Spinning bee, 362 

Simonton, Walter 387 

Ships and shipbuilding, 458 

Stoddard, John 44 

Shove, 3Ir. 53 

Southvvorth, Jedediah 57 

Scott, Andrew 57 

Stroudwater bridge, 88, 137 
Snow, 132, 170, 175,192,195,203,208, 
210, 220, 243, 309, 316, 342, 357 

Schoolmasters, 150 
Soldiers raised, 147, 153, 175, 227, 229, 

233 

Scollay, Benjamin 170 

Slrout, Justice 178 

Stockbridge, Joseph 191 
Stroudwater Parish, 204, 205, 379 

Stone, Joshua 253 

Stone, Rev. Eliab SOl 

Storer, Woodbury 852 

Storer, Ebenezer 360 
Stone, Rev. Nathaniel ordained 377 

Stoddard, Capt. 379 

Soup Charity, 393 

Stogummor, 427 

Schools, 441 

Shurtlift', Wm. 46, 131 

Suntay, Richard 47 

Stubbs killed by the Indians, 125 

Sullivan, James 338 

Symmes, Rev. Wm. 234 

Symmes, Wm. died 388 

Thacher, Peter 8, 39, 62 

Tappan, Christopher 47 

Travelling, 140, .361 

Thanksgiving, 149 

Thrasher, 206, 225 

Tate, Capt. 209, 218 
Thacher,Rev. Josiah211, 212, 1221,245 

Tate, Wm. 219 

Taries, John 338 

Traders and Innholdors, 367 

TaberandSon, 338 

Trade, 1675, 430 

Temple, Robert 60 

Treaty of Paris, 197 

Trelawny, 426 

Treaty of Ryswick and Casco, 436 

Treasurers, Town 469 

" County 473 

Ticonic Fort, 1 55, 1 56 

Titcomb, Col. Moses 162 

Ticonderoga, 176, 180 

Titcomb, Benj. 216, 376 

Titcomb, Joseph 352, 353 

Tilton, Rev. Nathan 380, 400 

Third Parish, 891, 444 

Tliomes, Thomas 57 



INDEX. 



48c 



Town votes for ordination of Mr. 

Smith, 61 

Thompson, Wm., Edward, &c. 69, 178 
Throat distemper, 82,84,86, 88, 116,122 
Townseud, Mr. 88 

Toppan, Rev. Christopher 131 

Tompson, Rev. Wm., and family, 178 
Townsend, Rev. Mr. 179, 194 

Tompson, Rev. John 214, 324 

Thompson, Col. Samuel 228 

Town House, 335 

Tobacco culture, 347 

Topsham ordination, 364 

Toppan Rev. David 374 

Town Clerks, 468 

Town Treesurers, 468 

Tucker, Daniel 91, 225, 386 

Tucker, Josiah 206, 225, 386 

Tucker, Jeremiah 225 

Tukey, Benj. 236 

Tukey, John and family, 236 

Tucker, Richard 427 

Tyng, Sarah 11 

Tyng, Edward 74,428,431,432,434 
Tyng, John 74 

Tyng, Wm. 74, 212,217, 241, 835, 392 
Tyng, name extinct, 303 

Tyng, V^'^m. quarrel with Preble, 336 
Unitarians, 377, 378 

Universalist Society, 450 

Vaughan, Wm. ' 252 

Venus, obscuration of 326 

Waldron, Rev. Wm. 40 

Ward, Robert 41 

W^adsworth, Rev. Benjamin 43 

Wainwright, John 44 

Walton, Peter 53 

Wass, John 57 

Walton, Mark 57 

War,1734, 80; 1739, 90, 111; 1744,113 
W^ar of 1812, 404 

Watson, Eliphalet 90 

Waldo, S. Jr. 113,187,189,194,218,328 
Waite, J. and family, 117, 217, 315, 326 
Watts, Samuel 249, 378 

Waldo, Francis 177, 192, 220 

Waite, Col. John 177, 182, 198, 202 
Waldo, Gen. 179 

Walley, Hunt and uncle 183 

Waldo, Mrs. died 191 

War with Spain, 192 

Wadsworth, Peleg 241,244,356 

Warren, Peter 242, 258 

Walter, Rev. Wm. 334 

' Watts, Dr. Edward 351, 356, 378 

Watts, John O. 38 1 

Wadsworth, Henry 385 

Waite, Benjamin died 400 

Waters, Lt. Kervia 403 

Wharves, .159 



Wendell, Eliazbeth 22, 28 

Wendell, Jacob 22, 28 

Wendell, Oliver 22, 29 

Wendell, Evart Jauson's descendants, 28 
Webb, Rev. John 40 

Wentworth, John 46 

Welstead, Wm. 47, 137 

Webber, Richard 52 

Westbrook, Thomas 66, 99, 109 

Wheeler, Henry 85, 144 

Weeks, Joshua, Wm., Lemuel 90 

Weeks, Joseph, Daniel 90 

Webb, Jonathan 164 

Webster, Rev. Nathaniel 243 

Wight, Rev John 26, 112, 187 

Wiggles worth, Edward 4 1 

White, Rev. John 47, 51, 101 

White, Josiah and Nathaniel 47 

White, John and Wm. 51 

Wilmot, Richard 57 

Winslow, Dr. Gilber 58- 

Wise, Rev. Jeremiah 63, 164 

Winslow, Nathan 73, 214 

Willard, Samuel 75 

Willard, Joseph 75 

Winslow, James and family 94 

Whitetield, Rev. George 95, 102, 104, 
114, 116, 198 
Whitefield, Rev. Geo. in Falmouth, 117 
Wiswell, Rev. Samuel 131- 

Winter, mild 146 

Wiswell, John 150, ordained, 169, 191, 
193, 194, 200, 228, 337 
Windham attacked, 165,168 

Wise, Dr. 169 - 

Willard, Secretary died 170 

Wild rage, John 184 

Windmill, 192,318,356 

Wiiiship, Rev. Josiah 205, 312, 344 
Williams, Rev. Eben. 206, 307, 315 
Wigglesworth, Rev. Edward 207 

Winter, Rev. Francis 213 

Willard, Pres. Jos. 260, 329 

Wiiithrop College, 371 

Wise, Mrs. 377 

Widgery, Wm, and family, 402 

Winter, John 426 

Woodbury, Joshua and family, 52 

Woodward, Eben. 52 

Wolves, 81, 94 

Woodman, Stephen 90 

Wood, price, 241, 246 

Whooping Cough, 259, 261 

Woolwich, church difficulties, 344 

Wyer, David. 20, 202, 217, 233 

York, 51,203 

York county divided, 183,186, towns,203 
York, B. 434 

York and Cumberland Railroad, 463 



ERRATUM. 

Gneiss, on 19th page, 9th line from bottom, ehould be Gwijnn, (Joanna.) 
Williams, last line on page 202, should be Wllkins, 
Samuel, Ist lino of let note, page 312, should be Enoch. 
Kerenhabhuck, last lino of 204, should be Kcrenhapjmck. 
High street, last line but four, page 334, should bo King street. 
JVathaniel (Tilton) pages 380 and 400, should be JVathan. 



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